Camping tips, tricks and advice from a fairly average parent and a reformed dad blogger
Today is an exciting day. It might not seem like much to you, but today I have fulfilled a dream which I have been working towards for nearly five years – ever since I started this very blog, in fact. Yes, today (well, very recently anyway) I was asked to review a new Lego set….
Although you probably shouldn’t make all of your life decisions based upon what your children’s friends think is cool, a few ‘cool points’ here and there never hurt anyone. If you’ve hit a life slump and you’re looking for some job inspiration – here are our top five dad jobs that’ll impress your kid’s mates……
Raising kids is costly work, not only on time (and your mental state as you endure one too many sleepless nights) but also when it comes to money. The average cost of raising a child has been worked out at £231,843, which can come as a shock to most parents just starting out! However, if…
Whenever a credit history is not provided to the loan issuer, they may not be able to analyze whether the borrower will be capable of repaying the loan on time. Whereas even at the event that they can see that the credit record of the borrower is poor, they still may have the willingness to…
A little over a year ago, Robert (then 7) finally got a place at our local ‘Beavers’ colony. For those of you who I’ve already lost, Beavers are the early-years faction of the Cub Scouts, designed for children between 6 and 8 as a precursor to the more well-known Cubs. Short of a couple of…
Parent blogging is a fast-growing world, with a slew of great new blogs popping up every day – seemingly at a much faster rate than other blogging topics. It’s hardly surprising when our subject matter is something that almost everyone in the world could do, which requires no qualifications and which there are a million…
With the chaos of 2016 showing no signs of calming down, and a new house to save for, we opted for another ‘staycation’ this year. With Sara and the boys off for their usual 6 week school holiday, I was lucky enough to be able to take a week away from the office and spend…
We all know that moving house can be a tricky business. Along with getting married and having a child, it’s one of the most stressful things you can do in life – so it usually ends up in at least a couple of fails. Whether it’s an arduous house search, a nightmare moving day or…
The sun is out, a heat wave is upon us, and there are subtle reminders in all the shops that summer is here. Whether you’re planning on staying in this country and just heading down to the seaside for a couple of days, or you’re planning on jetting off to foreign lands, you’ll be needing…
Today I had the privilege of being invited to take part in a really interesting event at the offices of the Huffington Post in London. Myself and a selection of other, much more prolific parenting bloggers (and a few others to boot) were asked to take part in a debate with TV Chef and all-round…