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Welcome to the first in a brand new series about things I've been watching on TV. For most parents, staying in is the new going out so we watch a fair bit of telly when the kids eventually go to bed. My intention is to cover two or three things each week, but enthusiasm for one ...
I love the abandoned play scenes that youngest leaves. The most recent one featured Captain America watching an episode of Shimmer and Shine. I quite like the idea of the most earnest of the Avengers enjoying the antics of two frankly useless genies. It would make a great mashup actually. This got me thinking - which ...
I've written a couple of posts recently that some people may have taken as digs at Christmas. First I wrote a silly one about my family getting excited a bit earlier than usual. Then I wrote a sensible one along the same lines for Dad.Info. Neither were; I was just grumbling about people wishing away time. ...
It recently struck me that thee are quite a few unlikely similarities between the two TV shows I watch the most. Namely The Walking Dead and Peppa Pig. What could a compelling survival drama and an irritating anthropomorphic pig possibly have in common, I hear you ask. Well here's the evidence I've gathered so far. In the ...
They say that you're as old as you feel. Whoever 'they' are. That being the case, I think I'm currently significantly older than my years. For the record, I'm 37. And, as anyone who has watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail knows, that isn't old. However, thanks to a combination of factors, I feel at ...
For this month's Deeper Sleeper challenge, Sealy asked me to try offline activities rather than using my phone before bed to see if its absence improved my sleep. They sent me a colouring book for adults, a pack of colouring pencils and a £20 book voucher. It was going to be a tough challenge for me ...
Today is a proud landmark for me - this is my 500th post! So much has changed since I wrote my first one, but I think I've stayed true to the roots that it established by writing in the same voice, talking about family life and sporadically mentioning zombies! In the time that I've been writing Diary ...
I wasn't really livid as such, but if you've been reading this blog for a little while you'll know I can't resist sneaking zombie puns in when I can. The feeling is certainly a lot stronger than being slightly miffed, but stops well short of furious anger too. It's a strange fusion of feelings really. Disappointment, wretchedness, ...
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.
