As we’ve been having such good weather lately, thoughts have turned to preparing meals outside – you know the sort; you don’t actually mention them by name unless you want it to pour down. Typing it in a blog post, however, is entirely different so I have no qualms about it – especially as I …
Month: June 2014
So another BritMums Live has been and gone and, at risk of sounding like a complete diva, I’m physically, mentally and emotionally drained as I write this. It was a long day and a half of blogging banter, booze and bunions. The last bit is something of an exaggeration, but ‘tired feet’ wasn’t nearly as …
I’ve caught myself doing some slightly odd things recently and they’re things I’ve never done before now. Of course, we all change as we get older and start falling apart, but these new foibles of mine all seem to be related to two particular facts. The first is that I have children and the second is …
So, seven days from now I’ll be on a train to some place called London as I make my way to my third BritMums Live. I’m looking forward to all the usual things, of course – meeting up with old friends, making new ones, drinking far too much and having an uninterrupted night’s sleep between …
There are two universal truths that I can think of about shoes. The first is that, when trying them on, we all end up moving around in a way that wouldn’t look completely out of place in Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks sketch. The second is that children go through them at a rate that gives …
With Father’s Day fast approaching, many of us will be thinking about what to get our dads by means of a small token of our appreciation as well as of all the things they do for us. The Car Buying Service got in touch with me recently to ask how much I value my Dad – well …
I’ve been a Philosophy Football customer since they started business 20 years ago, so when an email about their new World Cup T-shirts arrived in my inbox, I got in touch to ask if I could have one. There were two reasons for this shameless act of blagging. Obviously, I wanted one and, not having a job at …
I’m probably flying in the face of an unwritten rule about blogging here, but I’m going to do it anyway. I’m a man on the edge, I know. Yes, today, I’m breaking the illusory fourth wall and discussing PR requests for no other reason than the fact that, for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been …