Kids love dinosaurs. Kids love trains. Jim Henson’s Dinosaur Train was never likely to be anything other than a hit and so it has proved in our house. Tomy asked me if Dylan and Xander would be interested in reviewing some of the collectibles from their Dinosaur Train range and, being a complete softie, I …
I’ve been out of work for over three months now. It’s not a long time in the grand scheme of things, but I will confess to starting to worry about eroding all of our savings and didn’t think it would take me this long to find a new job in my field. I’ve come agonisingly close to …
If there’s one kind of product I can be guaranteed to say yes to when friendly PR folk come calling, it’s stuff that has something to do with the consumption of alcohol. I realise this makes me sound like a massive lush, but I’m okay with that as this is cool – quite literally! The Corkcicle …
The floor of our front room has been the cause of much stress of late. It’s been pretty much covered in the stuff that Dylan and Xander just seem to accumulate. Numerous flimsy plastic toys , magazine covermounts and ‘toys’ from the inside of unfathomably expensive chocolate eggs had formed a play scene that could only have …
The other day, we were trying everything we could to get Dylan to have a bath. I don’t know where his sudden hatred of them has come from – he’s nowhere near being a soap-dodging early teenager yet – but hate them he does. Xander was already in the bath, quite happily playing with his toys but, …
Can you remember what the weather was up to on certain momentous events in your life? There’s a common denominator to significant dates in our family and a strange one at that. The sun has always come out for the day despite it raining for the rest of the week. We were dreading what the weather …
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 …
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 …