Camping tips, tricks and advice from a fairly average parent and a reformed dad blogger
This is where you’ll find all of my posts about parenting, from advice to reviews, and plenty of head-scratching.
Dear marketers, spammers, PR people and lazy SEO folk. This is a friendly final warning to stop sending me crappy articles to “share”, rubbish pitches to promote your products (with zero benefit to me) and other blog spam. I’ve tried to be nice to you – I’ve written several posts outlining my thoughts on your…
This weekend just gone, we were lucky enough to attend CarFest South, the family festival dreamed-up by Radio 2’s Chris Evans. Sara bought us weekend camping tickets to the event earlier in the year as a treat – and it was one of the main reasons we finally got our camping arses in to gear….
Having spent a very long day traipsing around London today, followed by a long a sweaty train ride home, I arrived at my house a little later than I have been lately. I opened the door and wandered in to our lounge, to be greeted by an empty house. “Hmm, this is a little odd”…
I was planning to write an interesting blog post tonight, and had been thinking of a variety of different topics I could cover. After a long and quite busy day at work, I thought to myself “I’d like to relax tonight, but I haven’t written a blog for a while – I’d better get my…
In an exciting development for this family, this Wednesday will see us heading off on our first ever camping trip. We’re packed, we have a brand-spanking-new tent (and virtually every accessory you can think of) and we’ll be hitting the M4 in less than 48 hours. The Gower Penninsula in Wales is our destination –…
Today’s post has been written by my wonderful wife (mother of my children, light of my life etc etc). She wrote it off her own back (no begging from me!) so I jumped at the opportunity to post it here – the mood doesn’t take her very often, so I’m making the most of it!…
Today, I was lucky enough to attend an event hosted by toy-makers Hasbro – their annual “Christmas in July” event, showcasing the toys which are likely to be on some of our little ones’ Christmas lists this year. Held on one of the hottest days of the year (in a strange church in the middle…
In an announcement that amused many media commentators last week, the BBC revealed plans to expand the remit of their High Definition services – with upcoming HD versions of BBC News, BBC3, BBC Four, CBBC and Cbeebies. The expansion is a result of bandwidth freed up by the Digital switch-over, and will allow the BBC…
Before I ask my parent panel to give us their opinions on some of the more serious or pressing issues affecting parents, I wanted to give them another chance to air their thoughts on some more children’s TV. I offered them a few shows to choose from – the Tweenies in particular inspired a VERY…
With the recent spate of unusually warm weather, bedtime has become a topic of regular conversation in our household. Our usual 7pm kids bedtime rule has taken a big hit for a number of reasons, namely: 1. The heat means Freddie is sleeping without his ‘gro-bag’ sleeping bag – leaving him free to cause terror…