Month: March 2013
Disclosure: I received a Tomy TF550 Digital Audio Baby Monitor to review and keep. This post also includes an affiliate link. The strange phenomenon of psychic PR people continues unabated; soon after Dylan studiously acquainted our previous baby monitor with a pint of summer fruits squash, rendering it on the blink and unreliable. Without me …
There must be some psychic PR folk out there. I’ve been meaning to get a case for my Google Nexus for a little while without ever getting round to it. With great timing, an email arrived from The Snugg asking whether I’d like one to review. Brilliant! A few days later, the Snugg Nexus 7 Case arrived. It …
As I may have mentioned in a recent post, Xander and I appeared alongside five other dads and their little ones in the latest issue of Mother & Baby magazine. Why? Well I was giving parenting advice to the future king, of course. As is often the way with these things, our answers were edited …
Since becoming a dad, I think it’s fair to say that I’ve occasionally become a tad indignant at brands that fail to acknowledge men as equal partners in bringing up their children, so I was pleased to see that this new video from Fiat drives those with Y chromosomes well and truly into the spotlight – or …
Xander has been happily toddling around for well over a month and has now mastered the art of deft changes in direction in a fashion that reminds me of Ricky Villa circa 1981. Minus the beard and hapless Manchester City defenders, of course. His sudden bursts of pace, dropping of the shoulder and toy slaloming skills …
We all know about the thinly-veiled innuendo in cartoons like Captain Pugwash, but have you ever watched something with your kids and thought “Hang on a minute… that means something else too”? This isn’t a Mary Whitehouse-style, ‘isn’t it awful?’ kind of post, far from it. Also, I’m not taking a pop at any of the …
Mother’s Day will be upon us seven days from now and, if you’re like me, cards may still be very much on your to-do list. I’m often guilty of leaving such things to the last minute. Mainly due to the often thankless task that is trying to find something not too nauseating and having strangers …