Camping tips, tricks and advice from a fairly average parent and a reformed dad blogger
A few months ago, the nice people at Panasonic offered to let us try out one of their fancy new breakmakers. Having had various flirtations with bread machines over the years, I was more than happy to give it a whizz – after all, who doesn’t love fresh bread? Plus, we had the added benefit…
Dear Morrisons Let me start this “open letter” (if Sinead O’Connor can do it, why can’t I?) by telling you that I generally love your supermarkets. You provide affordable food, you have brilliantly weird mist-spraying things to make your vegetables moist and you’ve always got at least one of my favourite wines on offer. In…
For the past 6-7 months, our house of 9 years has been on the market. Having lived here since 2004, we’ve decided that it’s time to move to a slightly bigger house – both to accomodate our expanding family and a slightly less cramped lifestyle. Sadly, the property market as it stands means we can’t…
We’ve all been there. The run up to Christmas means you get a randomly selected recipient for you amazing gifting skills, but fate deals you the weirdo that sits in the corner picking their nose, speaks to no one all year, and that you generally hate. Someone has to have them no matter how much…
There’s a scam on Facebook lately which you may not be aware of, but you may inadvertently be helping to propogate. Like all of the best (aka worst) scams, viruses and evil schemes, Facebook “Content Farming” relies on the kindness of strangers to help it spread, and plenty of you are falling for it –…
Around six months ago, I was invited to be a member of a growing Facebook group, specifically for Dad bloggers. In those six months, the community has grown to well over 400 members – which is both a blessing and a curse… Whilst it’s great to network with and learn from so many great bloggers,…
As a fully-fledged marketeer, I often find myself taking a different perspective on issues that other parents are debating. From TV shows to prams, I often find the (admittedly small) marketing part of my brain masticating a problem from a different view to other mums and dads. So I’ve been really interested lately to see…
Having a reasonable amount of experience in the heady world of SEO, I’ve been promising my fellow dad-bloggers that I’d give them some SEO pointers for a while now – so I’m finally getting round to it. I doubt I’ll be able to cover all of the important stuff in one post, so this may…
This happened this afternoon in our living room, and I had to share it. I say it was pointless, though it entertained them for almost half an hour, so maybe there’s something to be said for hiding in the same place every time… Perhaps I’ve been doing it wrong all these years?! :D Video after…
As most of you will know, I’m a big fan of Lego, and have been for most of my life. Because of this, I often find my Facebook or Twitter timelines populated with Lego-related stories, accompanied by messages like “I saw this and thought of you!”. Occasionally, I even get Lego given to me as…