Camping tips, tricks and advice from a fairly average parent and a reformed dad blogger
If my understanding of the nomenclature is correct, my children are “post millennial”, or “Generation Z”, or maybe even “Generation Google” – born well into the new millennium, with parents who were probably called “Generation Y” or some nonsense like that. Another name I regularly hear applied to children born in the 2000’s is “Digital…
We all want to live in a stylish, clutter free home but getting rid of old stuff just to replace it with new stuff not only defeats the object of de-cluttering it can also be expensive. These DIY home hacks and space saving solutions will help transform your home’s look quickly and cheaply.
This would definitely go down as one of the more unusual places that I’ve written a blog post. I am currently sat on a bench on the balcony-floor above a school swimming pool, laptop on lap, children whooping and screaming on the level below. It’s not my children’s school, I should point out – though…
Whilst September has never been my favourite month of the year (that honour goes to December, FYI) it is certainly up there in my top 5. Two pleasant milestones take place during this month, both of which I look forward to throughout the summer heat: the start of Autumn, and my birthday. But September 2015…
As I stood waiting for my train this morning, mentally planning my timetable for the upcoming day, I found myself confronted by a large poster for the new Julia Donaldson book – The Scarecrow Wedding (in paperback at last!) I’m sure I’ve mentioned this a few times before, but I’m a big fan of Donaldson’s…
Unless you’re a blogger yourself, or you work in the content industry, you may not be familiar with the thrilling highs (and crushing lows) of monitoring a website’s traffic. Most good blogs (and indeed websites) will have some level of analytics installed, which tell the site owner how many people are visiting, what they’re doing…
I’ve been a pretty rubbish blogger lately, neglecting this site way worse than I have done before. My excuses are many and most of them are pretty unchangeable – work is crazy, the kids are going through lots of changes at school, the weather is nice and our weekends are fuller. You know the sort…
This morning my wife and I attended an appeal hearing at the local council building, to appeal the placement of our son Freddie at the school he has been placed in. Or more accurately, to appeal the decision to NOT send him to the school his older brother currently attends. I won’t go into the…
Like his brother, Freddie sometimes has trouble pronouncing certain letters. It doesn’t seem to be permanent – I’ve come to the conclusion it’s probably just laziness, as he CAN say all these sounds – and thankfully, it doesn’t seem to bother him. One of the sounds he sometimes struggles with is his “CH” sound which…
One unfortunate quirk of the “rise of the blogger” – or more accurately, the rise of brands realising we exist – is that Father’s Day has turned into the Christmas of dad blogging. As a result, you will probably have spotted that many dad bloggers have suddenly had a glut of sponsored posts, competitions and…