Camping tips, tricks and advice from a fairly average parent and a reformed dad blogger
I’m not a very good blogger – as you may well have gotten the jist-of by now. I don’t post very often, I’m rubbish at thinking of what to write, and (despite my career in marketing) I’m utterly appalling at promoting this blog. One thing I AM reasonably good at doing regularly is taking photos….
Being the certified, Christmas-loving parents that we are, my wife and I have already made significant headway with our Christmas present shopping. Stockings have been filled (purely for test purposes, obviously), presents wrapped and bags safely stowed away in the loft. In our house, the story goes that Santa is the man in charge of…
Story time at our house is often a source of inspiration for my blog. The other night was no exception! With bath time done and dusted, we sat down to read the usual stories before bedding down for the night. Rather than pick one of the more ‘modern’ offerings on the shelf, Freddie opted for…
With the realisation that we are probably not going to have another child – at least not any time soon – comes the decision that we probably needed to clear out our attic of all the baby accouterments we’ve been storing there for the past few years. Now I’m not going to pretend the decision…
Time for an admission: I’m one of those annoying people who starts getting excited about Christmas around the start of November. Actually, that’s not strictly true: I actually start getting excited about it around the end of August, but I try not to vocalise this excitement until slightly later in the year, lest I make…
When the lovely people at HP emailed to ask if I’d like to treat myself to a test-drive of one of their Pavilion x360 laptops, I naturally assumed it was actually a trick (Look at me – I got a hallowe’en joke in the very first line of this post – impressed?!). Upon further inquiry,…
The lovely people at House of Fraser recently wrote to me to ask if I’d like to pick some clothes out for the kids, from their latest collection. They’re apparently doing a project called ‘Dressed by Dad’ (sounds like a recipe for disaster, if my own dress sense is anything to go by!) and let…
One of my friends shared this on Facebook, and it made me howl with laughter so I had to share it here. Apparently the Sydney Symphony and Sydney Choirs Orchestra decided to record their own rendition of ‘O Fortuna’, with some very parent-friendly new lyrics by Matthew Hodge. “O You Terror.” Click the video below…
According to “research” released today, a large proportion of fathers pretend to be asleep when their child cries during the night. To summarise what is essentially a press release for a nappy company, dads are arse holes who leave the serious stuff to mum. Let me caveat this post by saying that, as a marketer…
I’ve never professed to being a parenting expert – far from it in fact. Despite the fact that I run a blog about being a dad, most of you will know by now that I’m just muddling my way through like the rest of them. One thing I HAVE learnt in my 6+ years as…