Camping tips, tricks and advice from a fairly average parent and a reformed dad blogger
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…
Welcome to the first in a regular (well, let’s hope so!) series of “Panel” blog posts, where I ask my parent panel their opinions on a variety of parenting issues. To start us off with, I’ve asked the panel to give me their opinions on a few of the children’s TV shows which us parents…
As a blogger, I often find myself worrying that I’m getting too stuck in my ways or narrow minded – blogging isn’t exactly a very good forum for discussions. So I like to bounce ideas and get feedback from other parents once in a while. One of my favourite places to do this is Facebook,…
As some of you will know – either from my recent posts on Twitter/Facebook, or from my post “Fatherhood²: A Hospital Stay on the Horizon“, we recently took Robert in to hospital for an operation. After a long and convoluted consultation and referal program (lasting over 12 months), Robert was referred to the RBH to…
You’ve probably all seen this already – I’m usually the last one to the party on these things. But just in case you HAVEN’T, and since it combines three of my favourite things (being a dad, Star Wars and Lego!) I felt obliged to share it… Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader have never been so…
Last weekend, I was listening to Steve Wright on Radio 2, and as usual he was talking about some ‘research’ or tips he’d found on the web. According to the article he was reading (I think it was from MSN – most of them seem to be), Father’s Day is simple = get your dad…
Before I start this post, I should probably point out one thing: I’ve not been asked/paid to write this piece. I decided to write it this afternoon (while visiting Nuffield Place) after realising many people I know have probably written-off the National Trust as a collection of boring, stuffy houses which kids would hate. As…
There’s a common misconception that drinking a small amount of alcohol is better for you than drinking nothing at all. Maybe this is just wishful thinking on behalf of many. The key to this error is a simple misinterpretation of statistics. If we were to class people in the UK into 3 groups: A, B…