Camping tips, tricks and advice from a fairly average parent and a reformed dad blogger
I remember as a child going to the fun fair that visited our north London suburb for a week every year. Being an adventurous kid I always played the hook a duck stand and for my stirling efforts won: a goldfish in a plastic bag! Not much of a prize, but to be fair not…
In the week where the most stress-inducing event was supposed to be Robert’s first day at pre-school, the little tyke decided to dice with death on Saturday, taking me closer to a heart attack than I ever want to come. On Saturday morning, Robert, Freddie and I were making our way in to town to…
Getting back into a routine after the summer holidays While many parents will be glad that we are now back into the school routine as September gets under way, there can be a few teething troubles to get over during the first few weeks back at school. And not just for kids! Now that the…
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”,…