The school summer holidays have now started and as a part-time stay at home dad, I was beginning to think about what I can do to make sure my four year old twin girls don’t get bored when I’m on duty on a Monday and Tuesday. I know I could go away on my own…
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My Sunday Photo
Read moreMy Sunday photo this week is me having a photo taken with Captain Hook and Smee. I have always been a big fan of the Peter Pan films and we had an opportunity to see a theatre version with the Everyman Theatre Cardiff which is an open air theatre. The perfect moment to have my…
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I kissed all my children on the lips. Shocking!
Read moreThis is a first for me. Writing about something that is topical in the news. First of all how absolutely crazy that Victoria Beckham has been criticised for kissing her five year old daughter on the lips. It’s disgusting and just so wrong that people think what she did was wrong. It is narrow minded…
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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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Nursery is over Lets have another Baby!
Read moreR and M finished nursery in the last few days. The year has really gone quickly and it’s now time to enjoy summer and prepare them for their first year of full time school. Now that the twins are soon going to be going to school full-time I think it’s time we had another baby! …
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Brilliant dad feature week 71
Read moreThis week our brilliant feature is Matthew who, as he says lives ‘up north’ in England with Jo and his daughter Effy. He turned 30 last year and started his blog Dad Up North shortly after Effy was born. His daughter is now eight months old and is contributing to his ever increasing grey hair. Matthew…
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Talking periods, sex and pregnancy with my daughters
Read moreI’m a father of four daughters so the subject of periods and pregnancy was always going to come up and amazingly I thought it would embarrass me, but in truth it never did. Of course I could have given them the sugar coated version of periods and by that I mean those incredible adverts on…
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Selective hearing and children
Read moreI have come to the conclusion that children have an amazing ability for selective hearing. After having five children I have found that those moments of selective hearing usually relate to whats in it for them or is it something nice. 1. I would ask my children if they’d like a banana, pear or some…
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5 Tips for Choosing Exterior Colours for Your Property
Read moreContrary to interior paint colours, exterior paint colours can affect your entire street. That puts a great deal of pressure on homeowners when they need to choose a colour palette. There are also several factors that come into play when painting the outside of your home, including roofing, landscaping and hardscaping. The following tips will help you choose…
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Feeling obsolete as a Dad
Read moreThere are times (not all the time) when I feel surplus to requirements as a dad. This has become for me all the more obvious in the last six months or so. With my older children it’s a strange feeling, but one I can fully understand. I know they have grown up and are now…
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My Sunday Photo.
Read moreThe twins have just three days left in nursery. Then it’s summer holidays and they go back to full time school. The last year has flown by, but their development has been rapid. I caught this moment where R is reading mummy a story. Times are changing.
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New Cabin Beds and the Twins
Read moreAfter four and a half years the girls are finally moving to full size beds. We have had cots that then turned into cot beds. They have certainly lasted well, but the girls feet were falling over the bottom of the bed so it was time for an upgrade! The difficult decision was what type…
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Danger and having no fear with children
Read moreFear and danger in small children are in my opinion so very closely linked. Our twin girls are four years old and over the last six months I have noticed that they are beginning to take risks albeit only small risks. Of course they have to start taking risks otherwise they will never learn anything…
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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 70
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad feature is UK top 10 parent blogger Alex . He says he is just the wrong side of 40 and lives and works in St Albans as an accountant. He fell into accountancy by accident in the late 1990’s as he began looking for a profession at the start of…
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Getting dressed for Prom Night
Read moreOver recent years, we in the UK appear to have adopted the prom night celebrations from Amercia. This end of year celebration for our young adults is an ever growing popular event. Being a father of three teenagers, two daughters and a son, it always seemed difficult for my daughters to find their perfect outfit…
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Feeling guilty as a parent never goes away
Read moreAs parents do we ever feel guilty that we are letting our children down in any way? I would have to say that I definitly feel guilty, but is it us or is it our children putting a guilt trip on us? Children are very clever at making us believe we are not doing a…
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My Childhood, marriages and Children looking back.
Read moreLooking back over my life I have so memories. Good, bad and some just too difficult to think about, but occasionally I find it important to write down some of my memories as a form of therapy and closure. As regular readers of my blog will know I’m a dad of five children, but looking…
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Induction for twins to start school
Read moreAt the beginning of last week we went up to the primary school that R and M will be starting at in September for a parents induction day. Having older children I’m sure I have done this before, but if I’m honest I can’t remember what it was like and what happened. The morning was…
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My Sunday Photo
Read moreMy Sunday photo this week is my last post from our summer holiday in Majorca. It’s our four year old twin girls looking very proud that they had buried Daddy up to his head. I love their look and stance of triumph.
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Blackout Blind Review from Order Blinds
Read moreDuring the summer months the light nights can be very frustrating when it comes to our childrens’ bedtime. Our twin girls are usually in bed by 7 o’clock, but the sunshine is sometimes streaming through the window in their bedroom so it’s hard to get them to go to sleep when it’s still light. In…
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