Camping tips, tricks and advice from a fairly average parent and a reformed dad blogger
Well, more grown up than he was, anyway! Yes, the time has come when Robert will soon be leaving the clutch of our family for a large part of his day, as he starts his first pre-school next week. I doubt I’ll garner much sympathy here, as the realities of modern life mean that most…
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.” — Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest) In October 2004, when our son Evan was 9 months old, we packed our things, and moved out of the small university town my husband Andrew and I called home…
Today was a first for the Elliss family – or at least the latest generation of them. Today was the first day we had to take one of the boys to a hospital (for anything except a visit – or their birth, obviously). Ever since Freddie was born, we’ve known he suffers from “tongue tie”…
When I first started this blog (or more accurately, started using it to talk about fatherhood) I actively sought out some other fellow fathers to supply Guest posts every once in a while – something which I had some success with (as you can see if you click “Guest Post” in the category menu on…
Long ago, before I turned by blogging efforts towards the subject of fatherhood, I had a number of other blogs – most of which can be viewed in the categories to the left, if you’re interested. One of them, entitled “Our First Flat”, was a chronicle of the efforts we made on our house when…
Having just returned from a week’s holiday with our family, I thought I’d share a few my thoughts on travelling with a very small baby. I’m by no-means the expert, but having been told that we were mad for even thinking of taking such a young child (just 5 weeks old on the day we…
Having returned from our first (4-person) family holiday together just yesterday, I’ve got a few blog posts up my proverbial sleeve. But as we’re currently knee-deep in washing and have a house full of bags, I wanted to post a short video taken on holiday. Robert’s rendition of the short rhyme “Piggy on the railway”,…
Well, there’s a first time for everything – this is the first time I’ve ever written a blog post whilst on holiday! Thankfully, the experience I want to tell you about was SO good, I wanted to write a bit about it before I forget… This week, we’re down in Cornwall on a family holiday…
Throughout my working life so far, I’ve been involved in writing – in one way or another. My first job was with a publishing company in Bath, where (amongst many other things) I often had to write film reviews and other content for their cinema magazines. At Tamar (only my second job, ten years later!)…
Tomorrow will mark four weeks since baby Frederic was born, so I thought I’d post a quick “progress report” for the little chap. Well, that and the fact that I’ve not blogged for a few days and my sleep-deprived brain can’t think of an interesting topic. But it’ll be interesting for his grandparents, if nobody…