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Buying a new family tent

Family Camping for Beginners – A Guide to Buying a New Tent

Posted on May 31, 2022May 31, 2022 by Henry Elliss

After nearly 10 years of faithful service, our trusty Zenobia 6 tent looks like it might be on its way out. On our most recent trip, not only did we find quite a bit of rain coming through the roof at night, we’ve also got a couple of tent poles that needed drastic running repairs….

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Fatherhood: Review – QuidCo’s High Street Happy

Posted on May 4, 2016June 4, 2018 by Henry Elliss

The lovely people at Money-saving site QuidCo are conducting some interesting research relating to why we love our local high street. If you (like me) thought QuidCo was an “online only” thing, you might be surprised to find out that QuidCo deals can also be done in regular, high street shops! As part of the…

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Fatherhood²: Review – Westfield Isn’t Just for Clothes Shopping

Posted on May 22, 2014January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

As most of you will have gathered by now, I’m not very good at doing reviews. Don’t get me wrong, I quite enjoy doing reviews – especially when they’re more than just objects. And for some strange reason, people keep asking me to review stuff – so I merrily carry on. This latest assignment was…

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Fatherhood²: Top Gifts for Dads this Christmas – Part 1

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

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…

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Fatherhood²: Dear Morrisons – Dads Aren’t All Morons

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

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…

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Fatherhood²: Guest Post – Captain’s Log: The Shoe Odyssey

Posted on May 24, 2012January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

Our mission today: to seek out new shoes for three of our expedition members. This will be the first time crew members BoyN and BoyJ have had shoes as they have recently mastered the technical skills needed for walking. Terrain: Hard going. Today we will need to transit the area of ‘Oxford Street’ in order…

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My Year in Photos – January 22nd – “How not to save money”

Posted on January 23, 2010November 26, 2010 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – January 22nd, originally uploaded by henweb. I headed down to the trendy shopping street in Chiswick today (I’m assuming there’s not many of these streets, or I’d have found them by now!) to buy a baby gift for some friends of ours who have recently had a baby. As you’d…

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My Year in Photos – January 9th – “Toys, toys, toys”

Posted on January 10, 2010November 26, 2010 by Henry Elliss

My Year in Photos – January 9th, originally uploaded by henweb. Rather than post yet *another* shot of the snow today (and believe me, I’ve taken LOADS!) I thought I’d choose a shot which represented our day much better. Namely, our trip to Toys R Us! Due to the aforementioned snow, it’s quite hard to…

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A few photos from my slightly hair-raising morning A few photos from my slightly hair-raising morning walk. Some lovely sunrises, lots of ice on the canal and a couple of rivers and lakes that were quickly merging together, at the expense of the newly-laid track. At least my wellies stayed strong!
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A photo from my Thursday morning walk. One good th A photo from my Thursday morning walk. One good thing to come from this week’s rail strikes (and the subsequent week WFH) was my daily sunrise walks - something I really miss when I have to go into London. Fingers crossed that 2023 allows for a few more of them.
Merry Christmas, instagram family and friends. Ple Merry Christmas, instagram family and friends. Please enjoy this photo of our beautiful but low-key Christmas decorations, hung in the splendor of our delightful Tudor home.
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Lovely moonrise this morning 😍 Lovely moonrise this morning 😍
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