I’ve been playing quite a lot of Football Manager lately. Once everyone else is asleep, I fire up the computer and play a few matches, handle press conferences and try to keep in control of finances. Yes, this sounds both geeky and not particularly fun at all but I love it. I completed my second …
One of my favourite things about having kids is the funny things they say and do. I love how out of left field some of them are. They speak without any kind of filter and as thoughts come to them. Sometimes, I can pinpoint where certain utterances or actions have come from, but others leave me …
I’ve never been a fan of snow and events this week have only served to reaffirm this. As is always the case with me and minor annoyances, there are a few reasons. It starts with the threat of snow and the resultant behaviour of people. The most sensible and rational of folk suddenly become giddy …
Youngest’s latest obsession is a contender to be the most annoying one yet. She’s constantly talking about presents. Now, I’ll preface this by pointing out that she’s not a greedy child at all. Nor is she spoilt. It’s simply down to the way things have panned out in the last few months. It started in …
Big news. The three-year-old finally gave up her dummy recently. The plan was for her to ditch it before she turned three, but we’re only a month and a half behind schedule. As the carnival surrounding Christmas happened in the intervening period I’m happy with that. So another parenting battle has been won but at …
It’s always funny, if sometimes a little cringe-worthy, to hear your own words uttered by a toddler. Since cracking the whole stringing sentences together lark, youngest has come out with some corkers. Particularly recently. Of course, she mostly says the kind of things you’d expect from a three-year-old. For example, we still haven’t had the …
Our house has been on the market since September and, thanks to Brexit, things have been really slow. We’ve had a sum total of two viewings. Two! We’re reliably informed that the market is picking up locally though and have also dropped our already-reasonable asking price a tad, so are cautiously optimistic. We’re not going …
Ever since I published my first Mixtapes post last January, I’ve been meaning to write another one. Well, film sequels often take a year, so why shouldn’t music, eh? The penultimate song on that first playlist was one I thought my children would choose. So, following that theme, here are five tracks that could also be …
I’m not usually one to go in for ‘new year, new me’ kind of things. But, on the final day of 2018, it struck me that perhaps I should do so this once. I was putting up a new mirror at the time, so I was literally forced to reflect on myself. We had been …
We’ve been in a bit of a post-Christmas funk lately. I imagine we’re far from alone in that – nobody really knows what to do with themselves between Christmas and New Year. So, yesterday, we decided to get out and about. We had been slouching around the house long enough and got out for some …