Last weekend when the beast of the east dumped a huge amount of snow all around us, it just so happened to be the same weekend that our twin girls were having their birthday party. This was to be held at our home. The girls had actually asked about 20-25 of their friends to come.…
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Do Dads Suffer More Emotionally And Financially After Divorce
Read moreI have been married twice in my life. My first marriage ended in divorce, and this left me emotionally, and financially damaged. I also had to re-build my life from scratch, and after 15 years or so, and three children, it wasn’t easy, and it took me many years to be in a happy place…
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Let’s Have Some Quality Time With The Children
Read moreWhat is this thing they call quality time that you spend with your family and children? First of all I have to admit some of our modern terminology really annoys me so much, and this particular term; “Lets have some quality time with our children”, is easily top of the list. I will go into…
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Snow Days: My Sunday Photo
Read moreMy Sunday Photo is a bit of a change for me. It’s in black and white and I think it works really well, with all the snow that the UK has seen in the last few days. As for me, well, I’m my six year old daughters slave! Pulling them along in the sledges, which…
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The Beast From The East Arrived In Our City:My Snow Post
Read moreSouth Wales and in particular Cardiff was in right in the middle of the eye of the storm when the Beast of the East met Storm Emma. We woke up yesterday to very large drifts of snow and in places it was up to two metres deep. The scene in my street yesterday morning When we…
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So You Have Brought Your Flat-Pack Furniture: What Next?
Read moreSo you have decided to upgrade and re-new the furniture in your home, and this can be an expensive business. Like a lot of people to reduce costs you go for flat-pack furniture. The selection is vast, and there are many shops nowadays you can go to, to pick what you want, and they always…
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Fire Safety in Hotels And Office Buildings And Your Home
Read moreFire safety in public areas like an office building, hotel or a shared area in a block of flats is of course regulated, and has to be up to a certain standards to comply with the law. If you go to any office building or hotel you will find fire doors everywhere, and for very…
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World Book Day With My 5 Year Old Twin Girls
Read moreIt’s World Book Day on March 1st and my five year old twin girls are getting ready for it along with thousands of other children up and down the country. Their primary school every year makes a big effort to celebrate World Book Day. It’s almost part of their curriculum. The children are encouraged to…
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Simple Steps to Less Stressful Parenting
Read moreAny parent knows that raising kids isn’t easy, and stress is an unavoidable part of the job. When you handle stress in negative ways such as yelling, you sadly teach your kids to do exactly the same. However, there are still plenty of ways that you can make life easier on yourself, and these techniques…
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When My Twins Were Born: I Finally Found Myself
Read moreWhen you are blessed to have twins, and believe me it is a blessing, it’s incredibly special knowing that you are a dad of twins. Two children born at the same time. It’s very hard to explain how you feel emotionally. That moment they’re born, and you become a daddy twice in two minutes. That…
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Parents Evening/Half Term
Read moreLast week we had parents evening, and as always I find it a little bit uncomfortable sitting down in front of a teacher, or in our case, two teachers (more about that later in the post). In a strange way it’s a bit like being back in school yourself. Sitting in front of a teacher…
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Advising Your Children In Their Teens: Don’t Do It
Read moreRegular readers of my blog will know that I am a father of five children, two of them have left their teenage years oh yes! Thank god for that, one is still a teenager, please oh ! Please let the next two years go quickly, haha! And of course I have five year old twin…
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Alone On The School Playground: My Sunday Photo
Read moreDoing the school run on Friday took on a whole meaning. I think I was a little bit early to start, and found myself on the playground by myself and my only company was two school chairs. So what do you do when there is a chair or two on the school playground and you…
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Powerfully Unique Ways To Monetise A Reputable Blog
Read moreAre you a leader in your sector? Does your blog generate traffic on a daily basis? There are lots of men and women who can answer yes to both questions. Unfortunately, it doesn’t guarantee success from a monetary point of view. Although it won’t appear that way, some of your favourite blogs will struggle to…
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Should You Intervene When Your Children Are Arguing?
Read moreWhen I was growing up I was one of three children. My siblings were a lot older than me so arguing with them never seemed an issue. If anything I was spoiled by them, which I have to admit gives me fond memories. When I had my own children it was quite a shocking revelation…
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Making Mother’s Day A Special Day
Read moreMother’s Day is always a very special day in our home. It’s a time when my five year old twin girls can really show how much they appreciate and love their mummy. Of course, I’m sure they appreciate and love her every day of the year, but on Mother’s Day they can pull out all…
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Sharing Your Children’s Lives Online
Read moreThis is an interesting topic for me mainly because I have an advantage over a lot of parent bloggers. Most parent bloggers in general are sharing the lives of younger children, and in truth those children have little or no say as to what is published on their parents blog about themselves. There is a…
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My Health Scare And The Meds I’ve been Taking
Read moreIt’s about a month since my health scare and I haven’t worked for that month. I feel better, but the medication I was originally prescribed had a very adverse effect on me. The side effects were at times terrible to live with, of course when you are prescribed medication by a doctor, you take their…
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My Twin Girls: I Cannot Believe How Different You Are
Read moreAt the end of this month my twin girls will turn six years old. Their tastes, characters and personalities have really developed now and OMG how different they are. I actually don’t mean just the odd thing that is different they are at the best of times polar opposites. The last few weeks I have…
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7 Reasons Why Crafting Makes You Happy
Read moreMost of you us probably end up bored on a couch and can’t think of a good activity to pass time. Not finding anything to pass time has been deemed unhealthy in many types researches. Besides, it’s a well-known fact. It’s a human’s need to stay busy whether enjoyment or work. Since the 2018 has…
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Should We Encourage The Competitive Edge
Read moreWe live in a world today that is very much dog eat dog, and in the business, sport or in fact any path we take in our lives, it has a competitive edge to get ahead or finish first, or top of the pile. This is the way the world has evolved. There was a…
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