Getting Creative with Design Bundles The kids are back to school, things seem to be getting back to normal (ish) and the evenings are starting to draw in. The kids are not outside as much any more, so I am needing to find stuff for them to do inside. The boys seem to have a …
We have attended The Food and Drink Festival 2020 and you can too. Normally by now, the kids and I are regularly visiting local food and drink festivals in the region. Not only do they enjoy an amble around a sunny outside space, they, in their own words ‘get a load of free food’ in …
Lockdown Activities While my eldest two are busying themselves on Google Classroom. The youngest of the team is finding herself ‘bored’ more often than normal. The primary school age group seem to speed through their required pieces of work at the speed of light. Some Lockdown activities were needed. I have been making use …
Silver Lining As we fast approach the end of week 5 of this unprecedented era of lockdown. People across the country are learning to deal with rules that to begin with felt so unnatural. But does every cloud have a silver lining? The majority of children are off school, many people told to not work. …
Keeping up with everyone Chatting with another Dad this morning on the school run, it became clear that we all seem to be obsessed with having an even level of life. We obsess about how our lives are at either one end of the spectrum of craziness or the other. On the seesaw of life …
History Repeating – How to parent a teenager I think officially it is termed as pushing boundaries. Although, I don’t always see it that way. I won’t go into specifics, but ‘boundaries’ have well and truly been pushed. Patience has been tested and tears shed. There have been moments that I have secretly wanted to …
“Have kids,” they said. “It will be fun,” they said. The day the eldest decided that he was going to school dressed as Banksy for Word Book Day, was one of those moments when you know you have dragged the kids up correctly and there was a little spring in my step during the school …
Does your kid gamble? I often do an accumulator on the football. A small outlay but large reward if I get lucky. Or the odd poker game, where in my case luck usually precedes my skill. I am one of the fortunate ones, I walk away from gambling when I chose. For many gambling can …
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