I’ve been out of a job for two months now, but haven’t been claiming any benefits in that time. I felt depressed enough about not having a means to provide for my family – being patronised and treated like someone trying to cheat the system was something I didn’t need. I’ve been working incredibly hard …
Month: April 2014
As I alluded to in a recent post, Dylan has started to pick up a bit of a transatlantic twang thanks to certain films and cartoons that he watches rather a lot. It was just the repetition of odd phrases at first, but he’s now experimenting with his pronunciation of other words in a different …
Us Brits are good at waiting for things – we endure apparently endless summers characterised by rain and disappointment in the vain hope that there will be a couple of weeks of sunshine at the end of it, we’re all patiently looking forward to the day that David Cameron and his equally clueless friends fuck …
As I mentioned in my last post, we’re off on our first holiday abroad as a family this summer. We’re going to France and I’m really looking forward to it. Well, I’m looking forward to the being there side of things anyway. The getting there bit is going to be stressful. If only I’d have …
We’re going to France on our first family holiday later this year. We’ve got most things sorted but passports for Dylan and Xander were still on the ‘to do’ list, so we’ve been dutifully knuckling down and filling in all the relevant paperwork with the associated fear of getting things wrong firmly in mind. I …
We visited Sea Life Brighton for a review last year and really enjoyed ourselves so, when they got in touch to ask if we’d like to go back for a preview of their new Rainforest Adventure exhibit, we jumped at the chance – fortuitously, this took place on Xander’s birthday, so that was the family …
Listen up people – the chaps among you in particular – it’s Male Cancer Awareness Week and, according to a survey by male cancer charity Orchid, awareness of testicular cancer in particular is pretty low in some circles with two thirds of men not sure how to check themselves for signs of the disease. The survey …
Somehow or other, we have a two-year-old boy once again. I’m really not sure where the time has gone – or why the little man still isn’t sleeping through the night, for that matter – but we recently celebrated the two-year anniversary of Xander arriving in the world with such force that he saved me …