Growing up one of things that United Wales as a nation was the rugby union. It’s without question our national sport and nothing brings the people of Wales together better than rugby. Wales is a small nation, but a very proud nation and nothing more than rugby union highlights this. From a small pool of…
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Brilliant dad feature week 31
Read moreThis weeks Brilliant Dad feature is John Adams who has been writing Dad Blog UK since 2012. John is married with two young daughters. He gave up his career in 2011 to become his children’s main carer while his wife works full time and provides for the family. He blogs about his experiences as a stay at…
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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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Challenging moments with your children part 2
Read moreToday’s post in my series of challenging moments in my children’s lives is about one of my three and half year old twins, M. When the twins were born they were six weeks early and M weighed just 2lb 11ozs so she was pretty tiny. While they were in hospital initially they were mostly tube…
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Challenging moments with your children part 1
Read moreI am a dad of 5 children and there have been many moments over the years that have been incredibly difficulty. Either in terms of just being there for them or trying to sort out problems they may have. I am sure there will be many more moments of difficulty. First up in my new…
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First full week of nursery is over
Read moreThe twins completed their first week of nursery and as the week went on they began to settle. R definitely settled quicker than M. R started to talk about looking forward to going to nursery at the beginning of the week, but unfortunately M was still a little bit hesitant and she would be a…
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Letting go. My Daughter has gone to university
Read moreLast weekend I made the final road trip to take my daughter, E, to Southampton university. The journey of her university placement started a year ago with a visit to our first open day. It has been a long journey that has been full of pitfalls and fair amount of stress. We left around 8am…
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Brilliant dad feature week 30
Read moreHi, I’m Frank and I’m a jack of all trades! Writer, photographer, marathon runner and coach (I’ve run 12 marathons and 2 ultra-marathons). I’m also a project manager. I am a 50-something first-time dad, who figured the subject matter is too good not to keep a blog. The Adventures of a 50-Something first-time dad written…
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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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My daughter is going to university in a few days
Read moreThe time is nearly here after numerous university road trips, many days of worrying about exam results to finally get a unconditional offer to study at university. In just a few days time my 18 year old daughter leaves for university approximately 140 miles from home. My feelings are mixed. Yes I am so very…
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TOMY Foam Cone Factory Bath Toy Review
Read moreOur twin girls love a bubble bath. They have one most days and can spend up to an hour splashing about! Our girls love lots of bubbles in the bath and will quite often grab a handful of them and make ‘clouds’ on the bathroom walls with them! They have a few bath toys such…
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Too much or too little television. What’s right?
Read moreI am going to start by saying that in our home the TV goes on at about 7am and doesn’t go off until we go to bed at night. Unless of course we go out. Right or wrong? That’s the way it is in our home. I grew up with no restrictions on how much…
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10 reasons to have lots of children
Read moreI have mentioned before that I am a father of five children ranging in ages of 20 years of age down to three and half year old twins. Recently I have been thinking about the benefits of having lots of children. What got me thinking this? Well trying to decide whether to have another child!…
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First few days at nursery
Read moreR and M have attended their first three days of nursery. It has been an interesting time not without a few tears and lots of emotion, and that’s just my wife! After the first day, which I have already posted about here, which I may add went reasonably well even though M was really under…
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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 29
Read moreHi, my name is Ben and I’m a single dad from Wellington, New Zealand, with shared parenting care of my super awesome three year-old daughter. I run a blog called 1 Player Dad where I write about my journey becoming a single dad, and how I faced some of the challenges along the way, or, to put it another…
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The twins start nursery
Read moreSo the day arrived and the girls have started nursery. Hopefully all of our preparation has worked and they are ready to go. They were due to start at 9.15am todayand their usual waking time is about 7am so it was going to be a long two hours! They seem quite excited. R definitely is…
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10 Things I love about my better half
Read moreI recently wrote a post things of things that I do to irritate my better half so now thought I would turn it around a bit and write down 10 things that I love about my other half. 1. My wife follows me around the house all the time, but actually this might well annoy…
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Our Family Day out to West Midland Safari Park
Read moreA few days ago we visited West Midland Safari Park. It is somewhere we have wanted to visit for a long time. We live approximately a two and half hour drive away and they open at 10am so we wanted to be there before they opened the park and has it happened we arrived at…
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Brilliant dad feature week 28
Read moreDear Dads is written by Dan Scully. He is a returned veteran, amateur photographer, lover of cars, blogger and above all else a dad and husband. On his days off he enjoys spending time with his family, driving his V8 Sportswagon, camping, walking his two dogs and exploring the great outdoors with his wife and daughters.…
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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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