Our four year old twin girls really are so very different and as they grow up it is becoming even more obvious. They are not identical twins, but they do at times look exactly like each other. Thankfully R is a little bit taller so they can never catch us out or play games on…
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My AW16 Homeware Wishlist
Read moreCan you believe that Christmas is just over four months away! Oops, did I just mention the ‘C’ word in August?! I did, but that’s because I love Christmas, as does my wife and our four year old twins! How can you not love Christmas! My wife has already made our twins a Christmas Elf…
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Children: OMG! The Cost!
Read moreRegular readers will know I’m a dad of five children. Yeah I know what idiot has five children? ME! Seriously though it’s the best thing that could have happened to me. Why? Well, I wanted to be poor all my life and OMG, did it work! I thought when they were babies it was expensive,…
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My Sunday Photo
Read moreNothing much to say about this week’s Sunday photo except I love you all so very much “feeling very lucky and blessed”
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Has society's attitude changed towards buy now pay later?
Read moreAs a society are we still living on the credit card or have we finally realised that it’s not a clever way to live? As the saying goes, robbing peter to pay Paul. Back in the nineties getting loans and credit cards with huge spending power was common place. It was easy to go online,…
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A Rare Moment With My Children
Read moreJust a few days ago,I had a rare moment in my life. It was Tuesday August 2nd and what made this day so special was not meant to be, but turned out that way and in a purely selfish way it was pure magic mainly because it has never happened before and is very unlikely…
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Binky Linky
Read more****NO BUSINESSES**** Please link up a blog post, not your home page Please only link up one post – additional links will be deleted This linky is your chance to link up your favourite post of the week. It’s a great way to find new blogs to read and to raise your blogs profile. I’m…
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Brilliant dad feature week 73
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad feature is Dave. He is from and living in London. He normally works on trying to get our electricity transmission networks ready for the future, but since the beginning of June he is looking after his first baby, the Little Bear, full time. He has been sharing parenting with his…
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Saturday Tea-Time A Parents Worry
Read moreI recently wrote a post called, ‘When do you stop worrying about your child? NEVER!‘ It could be the time one of my four year old twin girls was rushed to hospital with dehydration, high temperature and suspected meningitis, or perhaps that none of my children are being bullied in high school, or that they…
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Some Excellent Nappy Cake Ideas.
Read moreAs much as we try and prepare for a new addition to the family, there are very often things that we forget or just overlook, even for experienced parents! A Nappy Cake is an excellent gift for new parents that people often fill with both things for the child, as well as the mother,…
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My daughter is home for summer from university
Read moreLast Friday I drove down to Southampton university to pick up my 19 year old daughter for the summer holidays. My 21 year old daughter and 17 year old son came with me to surprise their sister and to have a nosey at her new accommodation now that she has moved out of the university…
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Guidelines for a Successful Trip.
Read moreAsk any experienced traveler and they will tell you, getting ready for the next trip isn’t always easy. Sometimes life gets in your way and makes it difficult to prepare and pack like you are accustomed to. Other times you may be traveling to a destination that you are unfamiliar with and do not know what…
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My sibling relationships
Read moreI was recently mentioned by John who blogs at Dad Blog UK as a dad blogger to follow, which I have to say I felt very humbled by. In it John mentioned two posts of mine, do I see my father before he dies?, and my childhood, marriages and children looking back. All of this…
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My Sunday Photo
Read moreOn Friday,I went down to Southampton university to pick up my 19 year old daughter,for the rest of the summer holidays. One of her sisters and brother came along to give her a surprise. Yes I know it looks like I’m driving without my hands on the wheel. Just to reassure everybody we are stopped…
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Drugs, Alcohol and My Children
Read moreHere’s a subject matter every parent will have to talk to their children to at some point in their lives and rightly so. It’s vital that our children are given the right knowledge and information to assess the dangers. There is no question that if alcohol was invented today it would be banned. Drugs and…
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Binky Linky
Read more****NO BUSINESSES**** Please link up a blog post, not your home page Please only link up one post – additional links will be deleted This linky is your chance to link up your favourite post of the week. It’s a great way to find new blogs to read and to raise your blogs profile. I’m…
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Another Baby? No! Well, maybe!
Read moreThe other day I published a post called nursery is over lets have another baby. All this has got me to thinking. Do I want another baby really? Well, maybe! I have pro-recreated five times. That’s a lot in today’s world. In fact it’s double the average of 2.4 children per family so I have…
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Brilliant dad feature week 72
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad feature is Rob. He is a 32 year old software engineer from Gloucester and he builds websites. In his spare time is one of the narrators for Bedtime FM’s Story Time, a podcast dedicated to delivering short and unique children’s stories. It’s a fantastic podcast and really worth checking it out. He…
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Our twins have such different tastes
Read moreThe last week has been a little bit difficult to say the least. The girls have had a sickness bug and both my wife and myself have been affected to. I myself, not too badly, but on Friday my wife woke up in a terrible state with severe vomitting. I was able to go to…
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When fridges turn bad!
Read moreOne of the best things about going on a family holiday is having the opportunity to spend quality time with my children, and of course my wife! I get the chance to relax a little, well, I guess it’s not really relaxing when you have children to keep entertained, but it’s a lot better than…
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Specsavers eye test and frame review.
Read moreOver the last few months I have noticed that when reading and writing posts on my phone it has become a little more difficult for me to see clearly what I’m doing. My phone seems to be getting further away from eyes in order for me to try to focus on what’s on the screen.…
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