Rubik’s Cube
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In today’s WTF conversation with #1Son we have the following gem: #1Son: Life is Like a Rubik’s Cube. Me: (busy reading a news page looks up) okay, I’ll bite, go…
Benjamin
Pleasantly Surprised
I really want to start with some long rant, a diatribe, a gripe about being forced, nay obligated, to watch my child murder some popular hits and showtunes as part…
What a difference 2 years makes
In the last two years I have addressed what I thought was an issue for me (your experience and feelings will likely vary) and that was my weight. I wasn’t…
Proud of #1
This week I had a conversation in the car with my 7 year old #1 son. It broadly was about what he wanted to be when he was older and…
The Prepared Mind
I love this particular saying: > Chance favours the prepared mind I love it because my mind is rarely in a state of preparedness, or at least that’s how I…
What Words to Use?
This question recently plagued me when I reviewed in my head a conversation I had with Ben. ‘Daddy, what’s that?’ ‘It’s a chimera.’ ‘Oh.’ ‘Do you know what a chimera…
Another Kindness of Strangers
18 May 2013 On a train from Paris to Marne le Vallee I am sat here wondering how, aside from using it in the title of this piece, I can…
The future is now
It is a regular occurrence for our two boys to want to come into our bed in the mornings. This morning Ben wanted to join us and for me to…
Currant Situation (Part Two)
Well, the situation became more interesting as we discovered it wasn’t so easy to get the raisin from Ben’s nose, so now we had to take him to Furness Hospital…
For Nose Raisin (Part One)
(For No Reason) We are currently sat in the Minor Incidents section, a very new section, of the Accident and Emergency Department at Lancaster Royal Infirmary. The reason we are…