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Fatherhood²: When You Think About It, We’re Making Literacy Much Harder For Kids

Posted on February 25, 2014January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

As I sat at our dining table this morning, eating my cornflakes and mentally planning the day ahead, I noticed something that REALLY annoyed me. Spread out around me on the table were countless pieces of paper – many filled with scribbles and doodles, some school forms to fill in and a couple of pieces…

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Fatherhood²: The Santa Delusion, aka Keeping the Dream Alive

Posted on December 17, 2013January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

With the major disruption and stress of our house move now behind us, the Christmas spirit has well and truly arrived in the Elliss household. The Christmas tree is up and decorated, the tinsel is hung and the wreath has yet to be stolen from our front door. We’ve even had multiple viewings of the…

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Fatherhood²: STILL Getting Ready for the Move

Posted on November 26, 2013January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

If you read my last post on the subject, you will know that my family is currently in the process of our first major house move. In exactly (well, hopefully!) one week’s time we will be moving in to our first new home in over 9 years, along with everything we own (again, hopefully!) In…

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Fatherhood²: Review – Amazing Name Labels

Posted on November 4, 2013January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

A long time ago (not in a galaxy far, far away – sadly) the nice people at the Name Label Company asked if they could send me some of their magical name labels for me to review. I happily agreed, they sent me a small bundle of labels (for both Robert and Freddie) and they…

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Fatherhood²: Getting Ready for the Move

Posted on October 24, 2013January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

For the past 6-7 months, our house of 9 years has been on the market. Having lived here since 2004, we’ve decided that it’s time to move to a slightly bigger house – both to accomodate our expanding family and a slightly less cramped lifestyle. Sadly, the property market as it stands means we can’t…

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Fatherhood²: The Panel Reviews… Their Favourite Bedtime Reads

Posted on October 1, 2013January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

After a short hiatus caused by life getting in the way, my parenting panel is back in full effect. Stepping away from the TV for a while, I asked them to tell me about their favourite bedtime reads – and as you can see below, they did me proud. So, if you need a bit…

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Fatherhood²: 7 Lessons I’ve Learnt After Our First Summer of Camping

Posted on September 22, 2013April 11, 2019 by Henry Elliss

As I’ve mentioned a few times over the summer, Sara and I recently invested in our first family tent, along with all the equipment needed for family camping trips galore. Several months later, and as the last remnants of summer begin to leave us for the year, I’m pleased to report that we’ve made great…

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Fatherhood²: Lego, Lego, Everywhere…

Posted on August 20, 2013January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

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…

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Fatherhood²: We Went on a Bear Hunt…

Posted on August 1, 2013January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

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!…

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Fatherhood²: Time for Bed – or Is It?

Posted on July 9, 2013January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

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…

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Finally, 12 years later, my firstborn child is ear Finally, 12 years later, my firstborn child is earning his keep. Long may it continue.
Obligatory snowy walk photos. Lovely stuff! Obligatory snowy walk photos. Lovely stuff!
Tried out a couple of new countryside walks this w Tried out a couple of new countryside walks this weekend, thanks to a new app we found. Both within 2 miles of our house and both very muddy indeed!
Now you see it... and now you don’t! After over Now you see it... and now you don’t!
After over a decade of dereliction, the old abandoned caravan that sits next to our rear driveway has GONE! We’ve only been here for less than 10% of its reign, but even a few months was enough and I made enquiries about having it removed. Today, just 4 months after I started my attempts, it was taken away. And I am beyond pleased. All I need to do now is tidy the ground up and the whole driveway will be usable again.
Boxing Day walk. Eldest son not in shot due to bei Boxing Day walk. Eldest son not in shot due to being too cool to walk with us.
Went for a lovely sunny, winter walk through the n Went for a lovely sunny, winter walk through the nearby @wasing1759 estate. Nice day for it.
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