In the past few years, there’s been an explosion of blogs written by mums and dads, and some have been successful enough to make a living from them. All great, but it does create a problem. As the Huffington Post points out, sitting down too long can damage your health, especially causing back pain. But…
Author: Henry Elliss
Guest Post – Why You Need to Tether Your Tools When Working on Your Property at Height
There are plenty of reasons why you might need to work at height, from painting the upstairs window frames to fixing the guttering. Even indoor decorating can involve climbing a ladder.
Guest Post – Landscape Architecture Tips Any Dad Can Undertake
Landscape architecture sounds grand and daunting, and certainly it can apply to major projects like parks or estates. Where your garden’s concerned, though, all it really means is putting thought into how you arrange it, and there are things any dad can do.
Guest Post – Too Big a Job for a Dad? When Do You Need the Services of a Handyman?
This country used to be DIY-crazy. At the weekend, dads all over Britain would be up a ladder, at their work-bench, or perhaps at the nearest DIY superstore picking up supplies.
Guest Post – Don’t Forget to Service Your Home’s Air Conditioning this Summer
Although, as the BBC points out, home air conditioning systems aren’t nearly as common here as in the US, they’re however more likely to be widespread in the future, especially if climate predictions are correct and heat waves become more frequent. And, just like any of the systems in your home, air conditioning needs regular…
Fatherhood: Female Lego Figures – the Silent Minority
The dad blogging community is having a good month, at least when it comes to Lego. If you’ve not seen one of the many posts on the subject, Lego have been rolling-out their new lines and sets for 2016 – and one of those sets contains a rather hipstery-looking Lego man pushing a baby in…
Guest Post – The Educational Benefits of Smart Technology
The following post was contributed by a friend… There is more than one way to learn, and there is more than one avenue to go down when it comes to how we learn about the world in school and at home. With technology becoming more and more advanced all the time, it’s time to ask…
Fatherhood: Review – The Peugeot 308
Yes, you read that right. I got asked to review a car…! It’s not often that I feel compelled to start a blog post – much less a review – with an apology. But having been asked to test and review a CAR, it feels right to apologise. You see, I know bee little about…
Fatherhood: Living Lagom in 2016 with IKEA
As most people who regularly read blogs will know, bloggers often get approached by brands asking them to review a product, endorse their brand or any number of other weird requests. I get my fair share of them, and whilst it might sometimes seem like I agree to some weird ones, I actually turn down…
Fatherhood: 5 Ways to be a Better Father in 2016
As a rule, I don’t really go for New Year Resolutions – never have really, but even less so as I get older. Much like most of the promises and plans we make in January, 90% of them are a distant memory by March, so what’s the point in deluding ourselves? If you want to…