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If your family is anything like mine, you're really looking forward to the release of The LEGO Movie 2! We probably won't see it until half term but, thanks to the people at LEGO, we have a couple of playsets to whet the appetite in the meantime. They sent us the 'Rex's Rex-treme Offroader!' and 'Ultrakatty & Warrior ...
A couple of weeks ago, we were on the bus to my parents' house. When we got off, another passenger tapped me on the shoulder. At first, I thought I must have left something behind so I was pleasantly surprised by what he said. He told me that it was lovely to see two parents paying ...
One of the must-haves in our next home is a decent garden. This is especially important as I feel we've let the kids down with the one we have at the moment. Making it more kid-friendly was always on our to-do list, but we only got round to dealing with it last year. And, even then, ...
I was interested to learn recently that parents in the USA seem to be as sick of Peppa Pig as a lot of us over here are. Their gripes are quite different to mine though. To be fair, most people will differ from me, as I have a complete manifesto against the anthropomorphic pig. I don't ...
Our house has been on the market for a while but, with January out of the way, there are signs that things may pick up soon. We've started getting calls from our estate agent again and other properties are being sold locally, so there's cause for optimism. As a result, we've been tidying like there's no tomorrow, ...
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 with ...
I've just celebrated ten years on Twitter. Well, I say I celebrated, I didn't actually realise until yesterday when it prompted me to share a tweet to mark the occasion. I love Twitter. It's definitely my favourite social media platform and is the one that has served me best as a blogger. I've made some great friends ...
One of the best things about being my own boss is that I can wear what I like. Jeans and hoodies are the order of the day, along with T-shirts. That said, a fair few of those in my T-shirt drawer are older than all three of my children. Sad but true! So, when the people at Shirtbox ...
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 early November ...
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 what ...
I'm Tom Briggs. A proud dad of three and, somehow or other, the writer of a multi-award-winning dad blog.
I've been writing Diary of the Dad since 2010 and it's gone from a small hobby to my full-time job.
I still have the same enthusiasm for this blog as I did when I wrote my first post and hope you enjoy reading my musings as much as I do writing them.
