Camping tips, tricks and advice from a fairly average parent and a reformed dad blogger
Whilst Father’s Day should be like Christmas to a dad blogger (as many of my dad-blogging friends will attest), it has the inconvenient habit of falling right in the middle of my two sons’ birthdays. This year it sits the day after Robert’s 6th birthday party, the week before we’re heading off on a camping…
My name is Henry and I have a worrying addiction – and now that I seem to have passed it on to my children, it’s time to come clean. It’s not really surprising that my children have developed my addiction as well – I first developed my own habit when I was about their age….
I’ve been the proud owner of a Corkcicle wine cooler since Christmas, when I saw it in a quirky shop while shopping in London. So when the people that make them contacted me and asked me to review one, I was quick to point out that I had one and was already sold on it’s…
I quite often get asked to review books for children. Books that are written for children, I mean – I don’t get kids coming up to me in libraries asking me to summarise ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ – that would be silly. No, I often get asked whether authors can send me a copy of their…
As has become an annual tradition (sadly), the “Father of the Year” shortlist has been announced – and once again the rag-tag collection of dads chosen by the public is a laughable selection. I’ve covered these “Celebrity parent” awards (as they should more accurately call them) before – notably this post from last year: “Fatherhood²:…
As most of you will have gathered by now, I’m not very good at doing reviews. Don’t get me wrong, I quite enjoy doing reviews – especially when they’re more than just objects. And for some strange reason, people keep asking me to review stuff – so I merrily carry on. This latest assignment was…
After a recent burst of interest in geography (hardly a surprise given his mother’s line of work), Robert has become very inquisitive about the world. So much so that he has now started his own book of world facts and figures, and is planning which countries he’d like to visit when he’s older. This latest…
Robert came home from school last week with a small plastic fob, which upon further investigation we discovered was part of a new initiative in Reading called ‘Beat the Street‘. Despite my initial scepticism, I was delighted to find that BTS seems to be a very well-thought-out and excellently implemented project to promote exercise and…
This is a Reading Buses bus pass – one of those clever new ‘smart cards’ (much like an Oyster Card) that virtually all travellers on the Reading Bus network use. They work remarkably well, and look fairly normal in the scheme of things. They all seem to be covered in the URL ‘EasySaver10.co.uk’ – so…
Next weekend (Sunday the 11th of May, to be precise) the ‘Hoo’s Kids Book Festival’ is taking place just outside London – and to celebrate, I’ve been given a great prize to offer up to you guys. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know how close children’s literacy is to my heart…