Pixabay.com Cooking is a great way to spend time with all your kids. Plus, it is a fun activity which will help them learn some very important life skills. Not only that, though, but it means you can have peace of mind come the day they move out – after all, you will know that…
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Brilliant Dad Feature Week 109
Read moreThis week we are very honoured to have one of the top bloggers in Canada which is Casey Palmer if you haven’t seen his blog I highly recommend you check it out you will not be disappointed he blogs at Casey Palmer, Canadian Dad He is a thirty-something Canadian Dad from Toronto, looking to raise…
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Easter Break: Summer Is Nearly Here! YAY!
Read moreI love summertime because my job as a painter and decorator is made much easier with lovely sunny weather in planning my work and it hopefully works out on the dates I plan. Firstly though with Easter just behind us, this always makes me feel that much closer to summer and seeing the back of…
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The Teenage Years
Read moreI have lived a few years and looking back at life, I have often wondered what were the toughest years to live and for me it’s a no brainer. The teenage years were easily the hardest as they are for a massive percentage of young people. We all have changes in our lives, but more…
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My Wife is My Slave!
Read moreMy wife is without question my slave. She is there to fulfil all my needs, look after me and my children, and never question me on anything. I am after all the bread winner. Without my money we could not live, it’s really as simple as that. So here is a list of what I…
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Its My 1,000th Post Today
Read moreToday is my 1000th post and a very good friend of mine in the blogging world asked if I was going to write anything special. I never really thought about it, but hey ho, I will write about it in a blog post. Not very special I guess, but a milestone I decided was worth…
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Brilliant Dad Feature Week 106
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad feature is an awesome new dad blogger called Alex. Alex is from the UK and he has two sons, five year old Dylan and Two year old Nathan. Alex says he is a husband to someone way out of his league! He blogs at The Dad Dance and says hopefully it’s a…
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Blogging And The Use of Social Media
Read moreI have been blogging for about two and a half years now and it’s always fascinated me the opinions of bloggers on how the use or abuse of social media should be used in relation to your blog. There are of course many reasons people blog. Some to make money, others to chronicle their children’s…
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How I Write A Blog Post
Read moreEvery day, hundreds of thousands of blog posts are written and published all over the world and I have always fascinated and been interested to know how people write blogs posts and where they get the inspiration from. Whether it’s a personal experience and just something they heard or saw, and that inspired them to…
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Brilliant Dad Feature Week 103
Read moreThis week our Brilliant Dad Feature is one of my favourite dad bloggers! He’s been blogging 10 years which is an awesome achievement. I’m very happy to say that it’s Tim Liew from Slouching Towards Thatcham. Big thank you to Tim for taking part. Tim is a father of three and master of none, forever stuck…
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The Four Tiers of Blogging
Read moreI have recently given a lot of thought to the world of blogging and how divided this cyber world of writing has become, but also how competitive and cut throat it is. Every day many new blogs start up and many blogs come to a halt because many people simply don’t have the time and…
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The Trust Between Bloggers and PR’S is Fascinating
Read moreThe trust between bloggers and PR’s has never ceased to fascinate me. I, like a lot of other Bloggers do sponsored work for money and all of this is completly done on trust. Trust that you will be paid. There of course is no guarantee that they may. The only proof we have as bloggers…
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5 New Dad Bloggers to watch out for in 2017
Read moreAt the end of December I wrote a post called my 5 five favourite bloggers of 2016. I have read through the course of a year probably hundreds of posts and I’m always on the look-out for new dad bloggers. I find many new ones through my regular weekly feature, the Brilliant Dad Feature, and…
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Dad Bloggers Will Always Be the Minority
Read moreAs a Dad blogger I often read how we are always in the minority in the blogging world and in truth I really don’t see that changing any time soon. I don’t know the exact stats, but I would imagine for every dad that starts a blog there are numerous mum’s starting a blog, but…
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My 5 Favourite bloggers of 2016
Read moreThis is not something I have done before, but I read a lot of blog posts throughout the year, and I often wondered what makes somebody one of my five favourite bloggers. When I read a post I like to feel the words and try to feel the emotion of the post which could be…
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What and Why I Write
Read moreWhen I first started blogging just over two years ago, I didn’t have a set idea or plan what I wanted my blog to be and I had not ever really done any writing in my life. I really had no idea how to construct a post that would be engaging, interesting and maybe get…
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Blogging, Family and Friends
Read moreI’m sure lots of us have experienced this at one time or another. I certainly have. When you possibly mention to family and friends that you have a blog, I always laugh at the confused look that I am confronted with and then you get one or a few standard replies. They may say yes…
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Stats and Charts. Really what is the Point?
Read moreI recently read a post by Tim Liew about his decision to leave the Tots 100 index. I would like to say I’m surprised, but I’m not because he is another of the more recognised bloggers to leave this index. All this got me thinking about stats and charts and top 10 lists. First of…
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When is a Blog no longer a Blog
Read moreThis is a question I have asked myself many times in the last six months. A blog by definition is an online diary of one person’s views or ramblings on a subject of their choice which of course could be parenting, cooking, beauty or indeed any subject they wish to choose to write about and…
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Brilliant Dad Feature week 79
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad is the awesome blogger, vlogger and absolutely fantastic photographer, Darren. He blogs at Photalife.com and also has a blog called LoveAllDads.co.uk. He is also the person that also runs the the truly brilliant linky called #MySundayPhoto. Thank you so much to Darren for taking part. 1. Have you always wanted to…
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Bitching between Bloggers
Read moreBlogging is a business for a lot people, as well as a community for others. That’s the reality that some of us just don’t realise. Recently I have read many posts about bloggers complaining about hateful and very hurtful comments said to other bloggers, and sometimes I read them and think yes, of course that’s…
Number 3 UK Dad Blogger 2020
Finalist Online Influencer Awards 2019 Vuelio
Number 10 Parenting Blog UK 2019 (Vuelio)
Number 4 on Vuelio’s 2019 list of Top 10 UK Daddy Bloggers
Working Dad Of The Year Winner 2018
Finalist Vuelio Blog Awards 2018 – Daddy Blog Category
Number 4 on Vuelio’s 2018 list of Top 10 UK Daddy Bloggers
Number 10 on Vuelio’s 2018 list of Top 10 UK Parent Bloggers
Number 2 on Vuelio’s 2017 list of Top 10 UK Daddy Bloggers
Number 8 on Vuelio’s 2017 list of Top 10 UK Parent Bloggers
Number 10 on Vuelio’s 2016 list of Top 10 UK Daddy Bloggers
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