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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Five Effective Ways to Treat Damp
Read moreIt’s no secret that damp can cause a lot of problems and it can happen anywhere for a variety of reasons. Damp proofing isn’t as difficult as it sounds, with 20 years as a self-employed painter and decorator I have seen plenty of damp. There are a variety of ways you can treat damp and…
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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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The School Playground And Me
Read moreA little while after my five year old twin girls started school I wrote a post called the a lone dad on the mum playground. There is no doubt at that time that I felt quite isolated on the school playground. I’m happy to say that I don’t feel like that anymore, although at times,…
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Tomboy: Its Actually An Offensive Word If You Are Girl
Read moreI recently read a post by my very good friend Alan who blogs at OMG It’s A Girl called ‘Don’t call me tomboy’. It’s a truly brilliant post about his little girl. What I particularly like about the post is the history behind the word ‘tomboy’ and that it actually dated back to the 16th century,…
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Brilliant Dad Feature Week 108
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad feature is Gary and he blogs at Dad Of 2 At Home. Gary is 33 years old and a stay at home dad of two children aged three and one years of age. Gary is a journalist and he started his blog at the turn of the year to share…
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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 Blogging Stats and Earnings Obsession to publish
Read moreOver the last six months or so I have noticed an increase in posts all about bloggers stats
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My Sunday Photo
Read moreMy wife and myself wrote posts for the blended parent network about being a blogging couple last week. This picture was used for the post and I love the fact that I look like I’m cheating and copying my wife’s work.
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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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It’s Been a Crazy Year On the Blog Achievements & Aims
Read moreIt really hard to imagine that 12 months ago I was a fairly anonymous dad blogger plodding away, writing about my kids and family with actually no real plan or aim where the blog was going to go. I’m actually not sure I was that bothered either. It was for me, an online diary for…
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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…
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
My favourite mummy blogger
