One sure-fire way to improve the look of your home is to update it with external cladding. Adding style and class, thisversatile product can give a tired old home a dramatic facelift and bring it into the modern era without compromising theoriginal character and charm. Not all claddings should be thought of as the same though; there are many different types of cladding and some have…
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Brilliant dad feature week 61
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad feature is Jamie from the UK. He is married to Georgia and a dad to two brilliant children, Edie and Arlo. They live in Berkshire where they spend their time exploring the countryside with their dogs. When they are not being dragged through a muddy bog by their two hounds, they…
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Five Quick and Easy Home Improvements to Brighten up your living space
Read moreAs a self-employed painter and decorator I’ve been in a lot of peoples homes. I’m always fascinated to see how people decorate their homes and quite often I take inspiration from what I see in other peoples homes and bring them back to replicate in my own home. Sometimes, a customer will ask me to…
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What my daughters sickness has taught me
Read moreIt’s the early hours of the morning, whilst the world and everybody around me sleeps. I lay on a hospital bed awake next to one of my four year old twin girls, M. It has made me reflect on the experiences of the last few days. What these days have taught me is that no matter…
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The benefits of having twins
Read moreI remember the day when we were told we could bring our twin girls home from special care. After 27 long days, home was in sight. The day before we took them home, my wife and I stayed in the parent room inside the special care unit with the girls on our own. Our first…
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My Sunday photo
Read moreThere could only be one photo for My Sunday Photo this week. One of our four year old twins was admitted to hospital,with a very severe infection and this picture shows,just how helpless little ones can be,and as a parent that you need to be strong and supportive for your children. She is on the…
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When your child ends up in hospital very sick
Read moreIn just 48 hours it’s amazing how easily your life can be turned upside down. Especially when it involves your children. It started with M not feeling well and in all honesty it looked like she just had a common cold. On this particular morning she went to nursery with her twin sister R and…
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Binkylinky
Read moreBinky Linky #BinkyLinky Due to unforeseen family circumstances there will be no linky today. The Binky Linky will return next Friday. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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Parents Evening Part 2
Read moreA couple of days ago we went to parents evening,for our four year twin girls,who attend the local primary school nursery,and it is the school that they have been accepted to attend full-time in September. As I said in my previous post.I wasn’t quite sure what to expect and was pleasantly surprised,at what our four…
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Brilliant dad feature week 60
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad feature is Lawrence from the UK who blogs at Tired Daddy. His blog is a day by day account of the first year of parenthood, written by a new dad who has a lot of opinions about a lot of things, but not much of a clue what he is actually doing most…
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Parents evening Part 1
Read moreParents evening for our four year old twins is fast approaching and it’s definitely a surreal experience. It doesn’t seem like yesterday they were babies and now they’re in nursery. This is the thing though, parents evening for nursery. I remember my older childrens first parents evening, but that was the first year of primary…
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What makes a marriage/relationship work
Read moreWhat makes a marriage? I’ve been married twice and divorced once. oes it make me an expert? Of course it does! No, I’m only kidding! Although I do think that there are ingredients a marriage/relationship requires to make it successful and happy. Anyway, here’s my take on marriage and maybe what makes it work. 1.…
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Why I think the sibling relationship is the strongest
Read moreIn life we form many relationships, but we are born into just a few. One obviously is the parent/child relationship and the other is the sibling relationship which is not always perfect I admit. The sibling relationship can have those moments of estrangement, but also death, divorce or general lifestyle changes which can make the…
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My Sunday photo
Read moreThis week my Sunday photo is my wife and our twin girls at a friends party yesterday. Since they have been in nursery they have been to many parties, very lucky girls. They definitly have a better social life than me. I’m not quite sure what R is doing haha!
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Converting a room into two rooms using folding doors
Read moreIn our home we have a very large lounge. At the moment we’re renting it, but I’ve often thought about what I would do to our home if we were to buy it. I think I’d be quite tempted to convert the lounge into two rooms. This would mean that we could have a seperate…
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Moving the twins to bigger beds
Read moreOur twins girls are now four years old and we have been lucky to have had their cots for them since they were babies. We deliberately bought cot beds for the purpose that they would last a long time. They converted easily from cots to beds, which was great, but the time has come that…
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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 59
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad is Sean from New England. He is a divorced single dad of four. They are a family that loves soccer, scouts, hiking, fitness and some of them like gymnastics. Then there is their new camping experience and a newly sparked desire to travel since life can be good as a divorced or…
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Putting yourself back together after heartbreak
Read moreSince my oldest daughter J had her heart broken just a few days before Christmas it’s been a long journey of rebuilding her life. A very difficult task after being in a relationship for over two years, a relationship that you felt had a long term feel about it, but unfortunately it was not to…
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School admissions: Lucky or unlucky?
Read moreSchool admissions for starting primary school was decided yesterday by the local councils all over the country and I imagine they are some very disappointed and also some very elated parents out there. I don’t actually feel either of these emotions for our four year old twin girls and the reason for that is simple.…
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Your children are only on loan
Read moreWhen my first child was born 20 years ago a few hours after the birth my Mother said something to me which I now believe to be a very profound statement. She sat me down and said enjoy your children when they are little and growing up because they are only on loan. I clearly…
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