I do love Frankie & Benny’s. Yes, I know it’s a chain restaurant but the thing is you know what you can get no matter which one you go in. The choice is excellent, the portion sizes are good and the kid’s meals and great too. We don’t go often but we do go and enjoy […]
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Let’s Talk Boxers Shorts and Socks
Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought I could be an underwear model. An I’m not! Let’s get that settled right away. But I do appreciate a nice pair of boxer shorts and socks. But I am also a tight-fisted Yorkshireman who hates parting with money. If money can be saved, often […]
A Little Rant About A Credit Card Company
This blog post is exactly what its title suggests. It is a RANT. It’s a rant about customer service and in particular a rant about customer service from credit card companies. If you like rants, please read one. Some background info So I have a credit card. It recently had a zero balance (i.e. I […]
About The Pointless Sugar Tax
Today’s the day in the UK that the much-anticipated sugar tax comes into force. The, often irritating, Jamie Oliver has courted this for so long and garnered much media attention. But, is it everything it purports to be? I have written about this before on the blog but now it’s in force I thought I […]
Dance Exams – Term-time holiday rules stop children taking off
Our girls all go to dance school. They all spend many hours a week at dance and theatre classes on top of their academic education in school. They do it because they love it and they enjoy it and they do the exams, both RAD and IDTA, because they want to learn and progress. It is […]
Protect your family home with life insurance cover
Do you need life insurance? These are really difficult questions to answer and uncomfortable to ask, but what if you or your partner was no longer around? Could you: Afford mortgage repayments? What about household bills? Maintain your current standard of living? Who would look after the children? Would you have to go back to […]
Grammar Schools Should Be Abolished
You may realise by now that I have some strong views on education and the ways schools are run in general. I take a dim view of the way the Department for Education operates and with that a dim view of how some school operate. But, I can’t stand the fact that state-funded grammar school still […]
What’s In A Name
For most people, the moment they find out that they are expecting attention turns to potential baby names for the new arrival. Of course, more and more people are choosing the find out the sex of their baby and thus narrow down the search field for that all important name. So how did you choose […]
Spring Forward
I love. No, I LOVE the day the clocks go forward. Spring is that time of year when the nights really start to become longer and the weather is definitely warming up. Here’s why I love it so much. Longer Days I’m not sure whether I get SAD (seasonal affective disorder) but during the short winters […]
Reflections of Pride on the Dancing Showcase
If you follow this blog or my Instagram or my Twitter then you can’t fail to know that this last weekend all our girls were involved in their dance school bi-annual showcase production. It takes a few days of being laid up with tonsillitis to both process what we saw and get around to writing about. […]