In three weeks time, our fourteen-years-old daughter will travel to Austria with 26 other students from her school. She’s there for a week and will be living with a girl called Maria and her family in the south-east of the country. What an amazing opportunity she’s got in front of her on this Austrian Exchange. Tonight […]
My daughter came home from school today crying. It was the first day back after Christmas and she was upset about not doing well in a piece of English work. What is it about our education system in the UK. I have no complaints with my daughters’ school or the teacher there whatsoever. My issue […]
It’s that time of year again for us – Pantomime! This year we have 3 girls in the dance troupes that will be performing in our local amateur dramatic production. I can’t wait to see them perform – this year it’s Hansel and Gretel. But pantomime season for us also means we’re extremely busy. In […]
Happy New Year and welcome back to the Yorkshire Dad of 4 blog for 2019! A tradition we have in our family is that on New Year’s Day we go for a walk. Now, keen followers may wonder what’s special about that given that I am forever out walking. You may have a point. But, […]
It’s a fact that I must come to terms with – teenage daughters don’t much like spending time with their Dad. It’s something that really bothers me. This child that we have raised, loved, protected, fed, watered and clothed suddenly decrees independance. But there’s something that will bring them back. No, not the Wi-Fi password, […]
Anyone that knows us will know that we are very busy all of the time. It’s of our own doing of course. But I like being busy as I don’t enjoy lots of down-time. But sometimes I look at our calendar and just want to hide it, lock the doors and keep the family at […]
All four of our daughters dance – a lot. Between the four of them, they are racking up an average of 8 hours a week of classes in genres such as ballet, RAD ballet, tap, jazz, commercial jazz and contemporary. In addition to that, they have singing, drama and musical theatre classes too. We don’t […]
What ewe looking at? I do enjoy walking the dogs, a good job as we have two of them. But more so, I enjoy it when the girls come too and we just chat as we walk along. They’re not always that enthusiastic about walking the dogs, especially the teenagers. Sometimes I wonder if they […]
In this post, I will be continuing on from my previous post about maths. It’s often the case that us parents look at maths homework and realise that things are taught differently nowadays. In part 1 I looked at addition and subtraction so in this second part it will all about multiplication and division. Before […]
I’ve really felt like I’ve had a bit of cabin fever so far this late autumn. It’s dark when I’m not at work and I’m running in the dark mornings. Life with the girls is as busy as ever too so evenings are full on. Just getting a daylight walk in the country air with the […]
