I don’t make a big deal about having rheumatoid arthritis. I written the odd blog post and mention is now again again but other than that I leave it as one of those parts of me I’m comfortable with and happy to leave in the background. Until now… You see it’s just over two years […]
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The UKs Weird Child Car Seat Laws
We had revelation recently. Delilah, who is tall, is 9 years old and has been on a back-less car booster seat for a while. But a revelation came when she sat in the middle seat (i.e. directly in the sight line of my rear view mirror) recently and I realised she was very high up. […]
A Parents View On The Sugar Tax
Back in March 2016 the then chancellor, George Osborne, announced the introduction of the sugar tax. This was the UK governments attempt at tackling the rising obesity among children in the UK. It comes into force in April this year. I recently posted a piece related to this when the makers of Irn-Bru announced they […]
Dads Do Make-up Too
How many Dads are out there that would willingly do their daughters make-up? I suspect not many. Well here’s one dad who has learnt to do it and does do it. Of course I’m not talking about whacking on the blusher before school everyday like one of our teenage daughters does. No, I am talking […]
A Hard Hitting Lesson in Living
Unless you pay zero attention to social media you can’t fail to be aware of a post by the late Holly Butcher – the 27 year Australian lady that recently passed away having battled cancer. As of writing this her Facebook post has been share almost 150,000 times and with good reason. The thing is […]
Some Films I’d Recommend
I’m hardly Barry Norman and thankfully I’m not Jonathon Ross but I do love a good film. Often my taste in films sits at around the 3 stars out of five mark on IMDB. In fact the running joke with Helen and I is that the worse review a film has the more likely we […]
Running Diary 2018 – Week 2
Distance this week: 0km Number of runs this week: 0 Distance to goal: 1988.9km I pretty much want to forget this week in terms of my physical activity! It’s a write-off and nothing more. That said it has allowed me some vital rest time. The fact is I got ill – a virus. I knew I […]
Happy Anniversary
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]