Camping tips, tricks and advice from a fairly average parent and a reformed dad blogger
The dad blogging community is having a good month, at least when it comes to Lego. If you’ve not seen one of the many posts on the subject, Lego have been rolling-out their new lines and sets for 2016 – and one of those sets contains a rather hipstery-looking Lego man pushing a baby in…
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…
With the big day fast approaching, children everywhere (both young and old) will inevitably be searching around for that perfect gift for the father in their life. If you’re finding it all a bit of a struggle, I’m here to help. Just like last year, I’ve done my research and have found 5 gifts which…
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…
If you found my first post useful (“Fatherhood²: Top Gifts for Dads this Christmas – Part 1“) you’ll be pleased to hear I’ve decided to offer up a few more suggestions – most of which should still be available for delivery before the big day…. Han in Carbonite business card holder, ~£10 Available from ThinkGeek…
For those of you that haven’t yet finished your Christmas shopping – and hopefully that’s quite a few of you, or I’m going to feel vastly unprepared here – I thought I’d attempt to do dads everywhere a favour and make a few suggestions for presents you can get the dad in your life this…
Dear Morrisons Let me start this “open letter” (if Sinead O’Connor can do it, why can’t I?) by telling you that I generally love your supermarkets. You provide affordable food, you have brilliantly weird mist-spraying things to make your vegetables moist and you’ve always got at least one of my favourite wines on offer. In…
If you’re anything like me, becoming a parent will have made your life infinitely busier – and you’re bound to have thought of a few ideas that would make your lives easier. I know I do – whether it’s inventions to keep your house tidier, occupy the children, make things safer or just a bit…
In an exciting development for this family, this Wednesday will see us heading off on our first ever camping trip. We’re packed, we have a brand-spanking-new tent (and virtually every accessory you can think of) and we’ll be hitting the M4 in less than 48 hours. The Gower Penninsula in Wales is our destination –…