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I've said it many times and I'll say it again: I'm not a fan of autumn. The change in season always leaves me feeling a little flat and "meh". As well as my pernickety reasons for disliking autumn, there are some sounder ones. I struggle more with my asthma and also find it harder to be positive about ...
Look away now, kids. We're halfway through the summer holidays so it's time to start planning for the new school year! Shoes, of course, are always high on the list of new things to get. Fortunately for us, Start-rite sent a couple of pairs of Tough Enough school shoes to review. Dylan and Xander have quite ...
I love it when people get in touch with products that I really need! I had just discovered that my shoes were no longer immune to the British weather when SPRINGURU emailed. Would I like to try out a pair of their pocket sprung shoes? Yes please! SPRINGURU came into being following a successful Kickstarter campaign ...
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 the ...
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.
