Dylan took another big step this week, quite literally. In fact, he took three in succession. We’d been sat on the sofa watching In the Night Garden together and, apparently bored of where Mr Pontipine’s errant moustache was going to whizz off to next, he started doing the usual “I want to get down now, …
Month: August 2011
Disclosure: I received a copy of 25 Foods Kids Hate to review and keep. This post also includes an affiliate link. Time to tackle a thorny issue for many a parent here. Kids can be notoriously fussy eaters. To make matters worse, it’s often the good stuff that they refuse to eat. I’ve lost track of …
Having previously taken inspiration for his antics from a number of big- and small-screen characters including monkeys, Gollum and Taz, Dylan has finally chosen to emulate a human. Well, a stop-motion representation of a human with a missing finger on each hand and what has to be the world’s oldest living pet cat, anyway. Yes, …
I was kindly tagged by Blending Time the other day in one of those Twitter/blog trends that I believe are known as ‘memes’. My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to divulge ten things you don’t know about me. So, being the kind to pick up this kind of gauntlet with relatively hasty abandon, here …
It’s good to get out of your comfort zone now and then and that is exactly what I did last week by going ice climbing and again this week by writing about it rather than family life. To say that climbing the interior of what is essentially a massive freezer – that is in severe …
I’m sure all babies have their unusual little foibles, but Dylan doesn’t half have some strange habits. To start with, there are the ones that I imagine are familiar to many parents. These include his penchant for trying to rip my face off. And marauding away in a state of semi-undress while we’re changing his …
I’ve been a journalist for seven years now. I got into it for the same reason as most others do; writing is something I’ve always enjoyed doing and I’m a little bit nosey too. Back when I earned my qualification, I had what I now think of as the slightly gauche notion that I would …