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There's nothing quite like completing your tax return to remind you of your duties as a self-employed person! I did mine last week and, before doing so, have to admit that I'd got a little comfortable working both for myself and from home. I usually wait until January to do mine as it's a useful wake-up ...
It's always funny, if sometimes a little cringe-worthy, to hear your own words uttered by a toddler. Since cracking the whole stringing sentences together lark, youngest has come out with some corkers. Particularly recently. Of course, she mostly says the kind of things you'd expect from a three-year-old. For example, we still haven't had the heart ...
Our house has been on the market since September and, thanks to Brexit, things have been really slow. We've had a sum total of two viewings. Two! We're reliably informed that the market is picking up locally though and have also dropped our already-reasonable asking price a tad, so are cautiously optimistic. We're not going to dare ...
Ever since I published my first Mixtapes post last January, I've been meaning to write another one. Well, film sequels often take a year, so why shouldn't music, eh? The penultimate song on that first playlist was one I thought my children would choose. So, following that theme, here are five tracks that could also be messages ...
I'm not usually one to go in for 'new year, new me' kind of things. But, on the final day of 2018, it struck me that perhaps I should do so this once. I was putting up a new mirror at the time, so I was literally forced to reflect on myself. We had been without ...
We've been in a bit of a post-Christmas funk lately. I imagine we're far from alone in that - nobody really knows what to do with themselves between Christmas and New Year. So, yesterday, we decided to get out and about. We had been slouching around the house long enough and got out for some much-needed ...
Well, it's that time again. Christmas is over and we're in that weird nether period while we wait for everything to start up again in the new year. If nothing else, it's a good opportunity to look back at the last year. As always, it's been a mixed bag. In fact, generally speaking, it's been a game ...
It's fair to say that I've made a fairly slow start to tackling my 40 before 40 list. A glut of family birthdays - including my 39th - and the ninja-like nature of Christmas have combined to keep me otherwise engaged. However, the festive season is the focus of one of my challenges. Namely to be less ...
The Christmas holidays are here and, if you're anything like me, you're not quite ready. In our case, we're largely sorted in terms of shopping and so on, but not mentally or emotionally prepared. This isn't ideal as the break between terms two and three this year is the best part of three weeks. With three ...
I was going to write another of my 'What I watched this week' posts today. However, the main thing I was planning on covering - a family Christmas film - annoyed me so much in the first few minutes that I switched it off. I had to as it began to float the idea of the ...
I'm Tom Briggs. A proud dad of three and, somehow or other, the writer of a multi-award-winning dad blog.
I've been writing Diary of the Dad since 2010 and it's gone from a small hobby to my full-time job.
I still have the same enthusiasm for this blog as I did when I wrote my first post and hope you enjoy reading my musings as much as I do writing them.
