René Descartes, The Riddler and Jeremy Paxman. To this list of prolific inquisitors must be added the name of my older son. Yes, Dylan seems to have reached a question-asking stage. Not the question-asking stage in which the word ‘why?’ gets bandied about willy-nilly, you understand. No, it’s definitely a question-asking stage. Because there is a difference! …
Month: June 2013
Well where to start then eh? BritMums Live 2013 seemed to take an eternity to come round and, after a fleeting day and a half of camaraderie, chatter and cupcakes, it’s over and we’re a year away from the 2014 event. Sigh… Anyway, I promised myself – and Twitter, for that matter – not …
If there’s one thing that points to the fact that you’re a parent of young children – other than the fact that they’re likely to be in tow, of course; they’re something of a giveaway when they’re with me, I find – it’s the presence of a certain denomination of bag from a certain High …
If there is one time of the year for dad bloggers, this may well be it. With Father’s Day imminent and people dashing around wondering what to get for their dads, our blogs are peppered with hits from Google search results and our email inboxes bombarded by PR people with a vast array of suggestions …
It doesn’t seem like that long ago that I was doing a passable impression of a rabbit in the headlights when I went to BritMums Live last summer. But it was. A whole chuffing year has passed since then, in fact, as I’m off on my merry way to BritMums Live 2013 next week. Everyone …
When we first found out we were going to be welcoming both Dylan and Xander to the world, Kate and I did the thing that I imagine all expectant parents do – went to get books on the subject so we could swat up on the next nine months and beyond. Wherever we looked, there …
Do you remember a computer game called Lemmings? It was a simple point and click affair, but was highly addictive. It was one of the first games I played and I remember it fondly. The object was to stop a bunch of green-haired, purple-robed rodents from letting their natural desire to perambulate from left to …
