Today we celebrate our 11th wedding anniversary and next month marks 20 years since we first met and got together. I say “celebrate” in a loose way because the truth is that we don’t really have time to celebrate as such. You see Helen is working, the young girls have dance all morning and a […]
Month: January 2018
When Speeding Isn’t Speeding
Last year, after being a licensed driver for 20 years, I was caught speeding by a mobile speed camera. When the letter from the Police traffic bureau arrived I knew it straight away – I remember the day clearly. I was on the way home from Park Run with the older two girls. We were […]
Feeling Old – Daughter’s GCSE Options Evening
Tonight we reach another milestone in our parenting timeline – our eldest is going to her GCSE options evening. Of course nothing is decided tonight but there will be some pressure on her for sure – not least from teachers of the outlying subjects trying to get her to “pick them”. I say “outlying” and […]
Why Are Teenagers Committing Suicide Over On-Line Bullying
Today logged on to Twitter for my morning peruse on the view of the world through the eyes of those that tweet about it. It was the usual mix of news, sport, satire and happy clapper celebrities with their shameless self-promotion. Then I came across this from Jeremy Vine: The girl who was the face […]
The Professionally Offended Are Out In Force
“What the hell am I reading,” was my initial thought when I first saw a news article about this H&M hoodie. Probably because I looked at that screenshot (it’s being called an add but clearly it’s a product listing to be more accurate) and thought “nice hoodie”. The furore that has broken out of this is […]
Trumping Brexit
If you thought this blog was going to stick to family life and my running you would be very much mistaken. No, I do have opinions about things as well and today I’m writing about two. Trump & Brexit You see to me Donald Trump is very similar to Brexit – here’s why: Trump became […]
Running Diary 2018 – Week 1
Distance this week: 11.1km Number of runs this week: 2 Distance to goal: 1988.9km As I sit here typing this from my sickbed (okay – sofa) to reflect on my running in week 1 of 2018 I must admit it’s been a bit of a failure. Then when I consider that I have targeted a goal […]
Parents – Teach Your Kids to Cook
Not long ago our usually excellent (by that I mean distinctly average) meal planning plunged to a new depths. You know those days when all plans unravel and change. Well, on one such day I came home from work, just after 5pm, and was greeted with having to whip up a meal for the 6 […]
Why I Won’t Stop My Kids Drinking Sugary Drinks
You must have seen the commotion caused as the makers of IRN-BRU announced that they are altering the recipe of their popular drink to reduce the sugar content in there famous drink from 10% sugar to 5% sugar and replace it with artificial sweetners. If not then take a look at Sky News. Now the […]
Dealing With It All
Wow it really is 2018 isn’t it. I hadn’t intended to down tools on blogging over the festive period too much, in fact I saw it as an opportunity to have a bit of time to write some post ready to hit the new year running. But, it didn’t quite work out like that and […]