Camping tips, tricks and advice from a fairly average parent and a reformed dad blogger
I’m now two months into the Ikea “Live Lagom” project (if you don’t know what that is, read my first post here) and I’m pleased with the progress we’re making. We got off to a shaky start with the pressure cooker (as my fellow Live Lagom’ers know all to well – more on that in…
Sometimes when we discover cool new things, our first instinct can be to keep them to ourselves. We’ve all done it – “I liked them before they became big”. Whether it’s because we want them a secret so “fame” doesn’t change them, or because we want to feel like an OG fan, the temptation is…
I’m always interested in the topic of gender-based marketing – especially the practise of pushing pink-only products to little girls, or the nonsensical marketing of certain things to boys and others to girls. I’ve even written a few posts on it in the past – Gender Stereotyping – A Marketer’s View, aka What a (Kinder)…
Yes, you read that right. I got asked to review a car…! It’s not often that I feel compelled to start a blog post – much less a review – with an apology. But having been asked to test and review a CAR, it feels right to apologise. You see, I know bee little about…
As most people who regularly read blogs will know, bloggers often get approached by brands asking them to review a product, endorse their brand or any number of other weird requests. I get my fair share of them, and whilst it might sometimes seem like I agree to some weird ones, I actually turn down…
As a rule, I don’t really go for New Year Resolutions – never have really, but even less so as I get older. Much like most of the promises and plans we make in January, 90% of them are a distant memory by March, so what’s the point in deluding ourselves? If you want to…
As most of you will know by now, I very rarely turn down the opportunity to review a new toy – it’s basically one of the main reasons I started blogging in the first place, let’s be honest. So when the nice people at Hornby asked if we’d like to give their new ‘My First…
To celebrate the end of what is probably a momentous year for them, the clever (and very kind) people behind the world-famous ‘Lost My Name‘ books (reviewed on this very blog before they hit the big time!) have created quite an amazing review of 2016. Rather than go down the traditional (and frankly, fairly boring)…
If you are yet to see the 2015 Christmas advert from Sky Movies, which features a little girl trying to get rid of her Christmas Brussel Sprouts by distributing them around a variety of movies, you should probably go watch it now. Because if you haven’t seen it, this post is going to make even…
Well, it was good while it lasted. If I’m honest, I probably didn’t expect it to last the seven years that it has. But all good things have to come to an end. Yes, I’ve finally gone from best buddy to bad guy, at least in the eyes of my 7 year old. What is…