Golden Oldie: Dear Daughter 18/1/10: Dad trumps Disney
Dear Daughter, you are a little sook but I love you dearly for it… After writing about your love of your inflatable Disney High School Musical bed your mum and I were concerned about you sleeping in it...
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Golden Oldie: Dear Daughter 14/1/10: If Disney made cardboard boxes you would...
Sometimes you really surprise me. There you are, with a ridiculous amount of toys from Xmas – there’s stuff you’re still opening (though I never thought Guess Who would have been an early favourite...
View ArticleGolden Oldie: Kids and the apocalypse: a cheerful post
It’s one of those things that I keep trying to put out of my head, but posts like this don’t help (for those too lazy to click: Dan worries about looking after his kids if civilisation broke down) and...
View ArticleGolden Oldie: 3 reasons why being a dad hasn’t made me a better person
I’m riffing this off of Tara Cain’s blog post 3 reasons why being a mum hasn’t made me a better person as it struck a chord. As Tara says, there’s a lot of highlights to being a parent but there are...
View ArticleGolden Oldie: Dear Daughter and Jesus on the naughty cross
Religion’s giving you major issues (and that’s before you start asking your parents/grandparents about their different beliefs) and you had avoided the whole issue of Jesus until starting school, but...
View ArticleGolden Oldie: Dear Daughter 15/12/09: in which you’d rather be a reindeer...
(Here’s where we lose the religious and decent of mind) So, as I mention in the recent Thumbcast podcast (with a very liberal dash of swearing) that you recently had a school play for Christmas and you...
View ArticleGolden Oldie: Dear Bump 3/11/09 – you take those hormones back right now
Dear see-you-in-May Bump, whatever one is releasing into your mother’s bloodstream just now could you stop? She’s being a tad grumpy and I’m crashing with your sister tonight because of it – if I...
View ArticleGolden Oldie: Dear Bump 26/10/2009
Good little developing thingy. Not only are you now, according to the little iPhone app I have, made it as far as the size of a peach, you also let your mum keep a full dinner down – and seconds. For...
View ArticleGolden Oldie: watching the SAW movies makes for a healthy kid?
Dear Bump, a weekend of making your mum ill. You are most likely going to be the fittest child ever at this rate (going by the old theory of ‘the sicker the pregnancy* the healthier the child’). Two...
View ArticleGolden Oldie: Dear Daughter 22/10/2009
Dear Daughter, as cute as it is that you wake up in the middle of the night and say “only you can help me get back to sleep dad” (what am I? Obi Wan McGill?) and… the cuddles are fantastic, you have to...
View ArticleGolden Oldie: Dear Bump, should never had said your mum was fat
Dear Bump, when the sperm that made you was part of me you may have heard me think that your mum could do with losing a few pounds. It’s the only way I can rationalise the amount of vomiting you’re...
View ArticleGolden Oldie: Dear Daughter 2/11/09 – Missing the point of Halloween
Dear Daughter, it’s way too early in the morning, so I’m going to introduce you to the concept of bullet points: There’s concern over your eyesight after your mum spotted you squinting at reading...
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Golden Oldies: Is there a collective noun for a bunch of Dorothies?
Dear Daughter, Well you’ve just no luck have you? Most girls – IIRC – get to the age of 16 before going to a bash or a party and discovering they have the same outfit as someone else. You? Age 5....
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Flip Mino HD Review
I’ve managed to have a quick and dirty test with the Flip Mino HD and compare it to what I call the PR/journalist mobile workhorse, the Nokia N95, but which comes out better? Or should you stick with...
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Kodak Zi8 Review: a videocamera for parents?
Picked up a Kodak Zi8 for work purposes the other day, but I’d be a liar if I didn’t say that I’ll be using it for personal uses as well, but how does it shape up as a video camera for capturing the...
View ArticleQuick review: SECC babyshow – worth going to?
Just a quick review of the SECC babyshow (I’ll do a longer review later) as time is pressed, I’ll just do highs and lows… Highs If you are into reusable nappies you are in for a treat as there’s about...
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Why 2nd children are like Return of the Jedi: Special Edition
(sorry this blog has been so quiet for, oh, give or take seven months…) They really are you know. And here’s the proof… It’s really about the ewoks. No one likes bloody ewoks. Even Caps Shift on my...
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Dear Daughter: Geek gene ACTIVATED
For once this wasn’t my fault: Junior (as I call her) went away to her Gramps the other week and stayed there along with her (older) cousins. When she came back, it was sonic screwdrivers ahoy – she’s...
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REVIEW: Amazon Kindle 3G – the poor man’s iPad
Tablets are still the hot topic and, being a geek, I have of course lusted after one since the iPad came out. However, the price, battery life and weight of it put me off a bit – especially as 90% of...
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Arnold Clark don’t care if my Ford S-Max and their botched work hurts a child
(Sorry been away from the blog so long, three children and being self-employed will do that) A heads-up – don’t buy from Arnold Clark. Here’s why… Long story short: bought a Ford S-Max last year from...
View ArticleWhy I never wanted to be Neil Armstrong
Anyone that knows me knows I’m a space nut – from spending £50 on books about the Space Shuttle system to the glee at receiving a NASA cup from the brother/sister-in-law and trying to talk the wife...
View ArticleIf the Asda Xmas ad is sexist why isn’t she cooking naked?
Some people really do get upset over nothing. Take the latest Asda Xmas advert… For a start, it’s a bit of light-hearted fun and for many people (which include mums), Xmas will be a totally stressful...
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Great, my daughter is trying to kill me.
Just look at that face of innocence in that picture below… that’s my daughter trying to kill me. She used to be all sweetness and light… Those wee things at the bottom of the pic? Those are people....
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So Santa visits Braehead…
It’s that time of year when – as well as far too many adults making drunken trips to the panto (seriously, what is that about?) – Santa comes to many a toy shop and shopping centre and children line up...
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