Check your balls chaps. Seriously, check them now! I am going to come straight out with this. I wasn’t going to share this story because of it’s personal nature. However and with reflection, I feel it should be shared because essentially it could save someone’s life. I’m going to discuss testicles. My testicles to be …
Lockdown activities with the kids. As many of you will know, we have had various fish tanks over the years and a fairly large one in our living room. You will have probably seen it in some of the videos and pictures I share. Sadly, just before Christmas, we lost our last and most loved …
How to use the Base 10 method to divide I’m sat at my desk, attempting to get some work done, but secretly listening to the little lady’s live reading lesson. It has taken me straight back to my childhood. Listening to an adult read to you is like meditation. I glanced over at her laptop …
Crafting fun with kids during the lockdown. With everything else going on at the moment and home learning seemingly topping every agenda. I have been keen to get the kids away from laptops and doing other stuff once their school day reaches an end. The weather is grim and it is practically dark by three …
Pass the Pugs Review (ad) I have fond memories of playing Pass the Pigs as a child. It would entertain for hours. Back in the late 1970s when the game was first released I often could be found sitting around a table with family or friends casually tossing two little plastic pig’s into the air, …
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 …
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