It’s been a manic but really good week for me and the best bit is yet to come. It’s my best mate’s big day tomorrow and I haven’t quite finished my speech, so this post’s going to be short and snappy – maybe that’s what I should do with said bit of public speaking, thinking …
Month: September 2013
We all have our critical weaknesses. Superman is useless around green crystals, Daleks aren’t much use on stairs and Jaws would be rendered decidedly glum and peckish if people decided to just go to the zoo instead. Not to be outdone by this lot, I’ve been thinking about what my Achilles heel is. And I’ve …
I’ve got one of those ‘kind of a big deal’ moments coming up at the weekend. My best friend, Rob, is getting married and has, for better or worse, asked me to be his best man. Of course, as he’s such a good mate and because I knew he and his wife-to-be, Helen, would end …
I’ve been a dad for over three years now and have been blogging for a similar amount of time, so have gained all kinds of knowledge about the miniature people we call children and explored theories on here about why they say and do certain things. I think, for the most part, I’m pretty clued …
So a video game that I’ve been looking forward to for ages is coming out tomorrow. I saved a £10 gift card for almost a year to put towards it. That’s how dedicated I am to playing this one. And, yes, it’s THAT wildly inappropriate one that includes just about everything unsavoury you can think …
Disclosure: I received these items to review and keep. Like most children of a certain age bracket, Dylan and Xander love making lots of noise. Kate and I both have a soft spot for traditional-style wooden toys so when Marbel Toys got in touch to see if we’d be interested in reviewing a couple of …
Somehow or other, I’ve been writing this dad blog for three years. It doesn’t seem like that long ago that I was writing this post about my new life as Tom the dad/a zombie – or ‘Tombie’ maybe? But it was on this date in 2010 that I nervously tapped out my first post as …
Today is a big day. We’ve just dropped Dylan off at pre school for the first time. I can’t believe that he’s at this stage already. It doesn’t seem all that long ago that he was faceplanting his way into the world at an antisocial hour and I was soon to be found wandering the …
Dylan is starting pre school next week. Insert your favourite cliche about the jet-heeled nature of time here. In preparation for the scary event that is unleashing him on his new, unsuspecting victims, we had a visit from two of the Key Workers who he will soon be spending half his week with. Worried that …
Did anyone else read this article in The Guardian over the weekend? I found it interesting reading. To be honest, the question of whether I put my partner or kids first isn’t one I’ve ever asked myself. To provide a brief premise, journalist and father of two, Sam Leith interviews author and relationship therapist, Andrew …