My twin girls are going to be six years old next month, very scary. I always wonder where the time has gone. It goes so quickly. It really doesn’t seem like yesterday that they were born six weeks early and had a spell in special care. 27 days in fact, which at times felt like…
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Our New Family Member: My Sunday Photo
Read moreYesterday I wrote a post wondering, if I am a pet sort of a person. Well, it’s been 24 hours since the newest member of our family was brought home from the pet shop. If I’m honest it’s actually growing on me having a family pet. We told our five year old twins on Friday…
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Am I A Pet Sort Of Person? Well I’m About To Find Out!
Read moreGrowing up I didn’t really have pets, in fact the only pet I had was a guinea pig named Georgie, but sadly my mother murdered him and left me traumatised for life when it comes to owning pets. Well possibly not quite that serious! Anyway my guinea pig, Georgie, lived in the garage and if…
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Oh No! It’s One Of Those Texts Again
Read moreLast year in March 2017 I wrote a post called Oh No! A Text I Never Wanted To Read. The post was all about my eldest daughter texting me about possibly going to live in Australia. My heart sank instantly and I struggled to come to terms with the thought of one of my children…
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Oral-B Star Wars Brush Like A Hero
Read moreI have recently teamed up with Oral-B and their range of Star Wars toothbrushes and toothpaste for children. The importance of oral hygiene cannot be emphasised enough. It’s so important to start teaching children this as early as possible. Did you know that as soon as a tooth appears you need to start brushing it?…
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Happy Birthday To My Wife Today
Read moreMy beautiful and gorgeous wife is celebrating her birthday today, and I decided I would take this opportunity to tell the world how I feel about her. When you are lucky enough, as I have been to meet somebody, and you fit together like two jigsaw pieces, you just know you have met the person…
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Entertaining Your Children Over The Christmas Holidays
Read moreOur five year old twins finished school the Friday before Christmas which is a good thing because they were occupied almost right up to Christmas Day with school. This meant that we had only two days of high excitement before Father Christmas arrived with their presents. Once the Christmas Day excitement had subsided, and the…
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My Daughter E Made My Heart Burst With Pride
Read moreMy 20 year old daughter, as regular readers may know, is in university studying to be a nurse, specialising in child nursing. She is currently in her third and final year. So all the hard work of A’ levels and then the first two years of university are culminating in this final six months or…
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What Makes A Great Dad
Read moreSo you have just had a baby and you want to be a great dad. You decide to pop down to your local bookstore and by a book that will tell you exactly what to do, and hey ho! You will be a great dad, if only! We all know this is not remotely true!…
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My Four Daughters Or Donkeys :My Sunday Photo
Read moreOn one of those very rare moments all five of my children were in the same room. And I captured this particularly magical moment where young meets old playing a game of “Don’t Be A Donkey”, I’m not sure much playing of the game was actually happening, it was a more a case of let’s…
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How to organise and create a homework schedule for your child
Read moreIt is no secret that kids are not big fans of doing their homework. Particularly when they may feel that there are a variety of other awesome things that they could be doing with their time. The trouble is, as parents, we know that making sure that they do their homework is incredibly important. So,…
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Christmas Presents: Children’s Expectations: Have They Changed?
Read moreOn the way home from work the other day I was listening to the radio, and they were talking about the expectations of children in relation to Christmas presents. Basically has it got out of control the presents children are receiving at Christmas? Is this putting too much pressure on parents? Is the expense of…
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Our Annual Father Christmas Visit
Read moreFor the last four years we have visited one particular place to meet Father Christmas. It’s a local garden centre called Pughs garden village which is about a 10 minute drive from where we live, so it’s very local. Every year they have a different theme, and this has definitely become a family tradition. The…
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J D Bug Scooter 4 Review
Read moreMy five year old twin girls love scooting and when I was approached by Halfords to review a JD Bug scooter it was perfect timing! Our twins are ready to step up to the next level, which is a scooter with two wheels, unlike the ones they have been using at the moment which have…
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The Older Generation (My Mother) & The LGBTQ Community
Read moreThere is no doubt that at times I despair at my mothers views on being gay, but I also understand her beliefs. She is in her eighties and from a generation that quite simply doesn’t tolerate people’s choices on how they decide to live their lives. Homophobia sadly is alive and kicking in a small…
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My Three Oldest Children Are Living Their Lives: They Are No Longer Kids
Read moreTwo of my children are no longer teenagers. The eldest lives with her partner and my 20 year old daughter is in university in Southampton, and my son is 18 years old and at university in another city. The passage of time waits for nobody and we all grow up which is exactly what has…
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Teaching Our Little Ones How To Be healthy
Read moreThe importance of teaching our little ones to be healthy is so important I believe, and this cannot be started soon enough. Doing regular exercise and eating healthy foods are something we pass on to our children. Hopefully this will keep them fit and healthy all their lives. My three older children all loved sport…
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Four Out Of Five Ain’t Bad (My Sunday Photo)
Read moreWhen you have five children like me, it’s almost impossible to have them all together in the same room at the same. In fact the last time that happened was last Christmas. I’m hoping it will happen again this Christmas. Nowadays it really is a rare occurrence. One of the problems of this happening on…
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Kids Will Change The Way You Look That’s Guaranteed
Read moreRegular readers will know that I am a father of five children. The other day I was looking at some photographs of my older children when they were little. I thought as I was browsing through them, OMG, I have changed! Then I realised what had happened is that I have aged. That’s what having…
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My Premature Twins: World Prematurity Day
Read moreRegular readers of my blog will know I’m a father of five children and there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t feel lucky and blessed to have five healthy children. Of my five children, two of them are five year old twins who were born premature. They were six weeks early. When…
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