Like most parents of young children, I don’t get as much sleep as I once did. I’ve kind of got used to it, but am starting to think that something needs to be done. Nobody should get used to thinking that four or five hours constitutes a good night’s rest! Xander is 19 months old …
Month: October 2013
Last week I found myself sitting in a church hall populated predominantly by octogenarians. You know the kind of place. It was cold, gloomy. It had unforgiving plastic seats and posters that defiantly perpetuated the use of clipart from the Windows 95 era. I was the youngest person in the room by at least 30 …
Lord Lucan, Shergar and several ships and planes that veered off course somewhere in the vicinity of a geometric shape in the northern Atlantic Ocean. They’re all more than likely stuffed down the back of my sofa. Ever since Xander became mobile, Dylan has become more protective of things that he perceives as his. He …
Kids can be defiant when it comes to trying something new. Be it healthy food, potty training or even the slightest change in routine. There are a great many things that Dylan still needs persuading of the merits of, but he’s started to turn a corner of late and we’ve had a couple more breakthroughs …
What’s blue, looks like a cow and bounces all over the place? What? You mean the picture gave it away? Damn. I need to get better at this game. Anyway, this popular new addition to our front room and beyond came thanks to the lovely people at The Handpicked Collection who wondered if Dylan and Xander …
Our computer is absolutely heaving at the moment. It’s packed with all kind of software, music, images, word documents and, of course, blog backup files dating back years and being old, slow and ready to peg it – the laptop that is, not me – I really needed to ensure everything was backed up as …
There’s a character in the Postman Pat spin off, Special Delivery Service who I’ve never really warmed to. As the picture above shows, it’s Ben. A largely futile member of the Greendale/Pencaster community whose sole purpose is to phone Pat at inopportune moments and tell him what to do. Of course Pat makes a pig’s ear …