Nigella Lawson Is Gorgeous

Nigella Lawson is a beautiful woman, of that there’s no doubt. I’m tempted to litter this post with pictures of Nigella, but I’ll stick with just the one. What I really would like is to get my hands on a Nigella Lawson calendar. I’d be a happy man, but I can’t find one anywhere. And [...]

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Coughy Anyone?

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One lump of catarrh or two? Nasty business. The snot goblins are playing merry hell at our house. Picture: basykes All four of the children have a cold. Two are coughing for Britain and two have snot candles to rival those big old church alter candles I see at weddings and funerals (other than that, [...]

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Shaving

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Shaving every day is for women and for those men who have to go to work. At the moment I’m neither, so shaving happens when either my face gets too itchy or there’s the prospect of some good lovin’ (or bad lovin’ (oh hell, or any kind of lovin’ at all, I’m not fussy)). Picture: [...]

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Not Without A Fight

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My current lifestyle as a Stay-At-Home Dad is under threat and it’s far too good to be abandoned without a fight. Picture: piccadillywilson Over the Christmas period I had many conversations with friends and relatives about my situation. I was surprised at how reluctant I was to admit that I didn’t really want to return [...]

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Need A Wii?

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It looks like everyone else got one, but Santa didn’t leave a Wii under our Christmas tree. Nor is the tight fisted Git ever likely to. Picture: mdmags If I could lay my hands on the work-shy old codger I’d punch him in the beard and shave a four letter word into Rudolf’s fur. Fair’s [...]

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Another Fresh Start

Hi! My blog isn’t dead it’s just been hibernating. Or maybe sulking. I’m not sure which. As usual my plate has been far too full. Not my actual plate because that hasn’t been full enough. I’m still trying to lose weight and I’m having mixed results. You can catch up with my fitness farce over [...]

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A Fresh Blanket Of Snow

When I started blogging I was glad I took the time to set up my site from scratch. I followed the slightly more difficult route to getting my words out there. I elected to set up my own domain name on a hosted server and build a site myself. I knew I was making life [...]

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My comments are lost and my heart is broken

Of course, they’re not just my comments, they’re yours too. In fact they’re mostly yours and I’ve lost them. All of them. All eleven hundred! I’ve no idea how it happened. The hosting company has no idea how it happened. I can pinpoint the exact time the comments were lost. One minute I’m responding to [...]

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The Crack Of Dawn

My comments are still busted but I’m going to carry on regardless. Last week I told you of my plan to wake up early and use the quiet hours to get some work done at a time when I can concentrate, i.e. when I’m not disturbed by the hubbub of daily life. Photo: guillotine86 The [...]

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Naughty Ned

It stinks. I was all geared up this week to resume a slightly less sporadic posting schedule. I’m laughing my ass off while writing this because only a couple of weeks ago I was claiming that I wasn’t posting because my internet connection was dodgy. I say ‘claiming’, because several of you were a little [...]

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Do Something Different

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” Picture: veyselkurucu I remember reading that quote in one of the numerous self-help books I’ve thrown my eyes across over the years. At the time I committed that line of text to the screen, I couldn’t remember who’s quote it was but [...]

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Teaching My Children About Health, Fitness and Diet

Setting a good example to my children and being a positive role model were foremost in my mind when I started this blog. The inspiration for Teach My Children Well originally came from a desire to get fit, lean and strong after one of my littlies commented on my “Fat Belly”. Children say what they [...]

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Pushing My Boundaries And Pushing My Luck

There’s no hiding it. For quite a few months I’ve been pushing my boundaries and possibly my luck. Photo: shadow–angel Interestingly and surprisingly my boundaries continue to expand and so does my luck. The only thing that seems to diminish is time. But as I continue to make progress both in life and online I [...]

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Why Cleaning Your Toilet Could Be Bad For Your Children’s Health

In a very mix-and-match post on Tuesday I mentioned that I’d managed to put up a few more stair gates around the house to prevent my littlest girl having free access to the entire space. Well, now I wish I’d installed just one more gate. You see my little darling waited till my back was [...]

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Internet connection problems – Part 2

Following on from the apparent success of Internet connection problems, I bring you Part 2 of this open ended series in which I make more excuses for not writing a proper post like: We’ve had some prolonged power outages I left my laptop in my other pants, and, The dog ate my laptop In future [...]

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Internet connection problems

Internet connection problems Sorry, but I’m having real problems getting online today. The window of opportunity doesn’t last too long, so I’m not going to post what I had scheduled for today, simply because I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to respond. I’ll post again once the connection has stabilised. My apologies, Dave.

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What I Learnt From Crashing The Car – Part 2

In What I Learnt From Crashing The Car – Part 1 I talked about walking in the woods with the dogs and all four of my children about this time last year. Toward the end of the walk one of the dogs went missing and I got myself into a right old tizzy. Picture: envyxme [...]

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New Blog Of The Week

After posting on Monday to tell you about the time I crashed my car, I really didn’t expect to be posting again until Thursday. My commitments are such this week that I am very time limited, plus I’m trying to get more sleep. Hence the meagre posting schedule this week. In only my second week [...]

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What I Learnt From Crashing The Car – Part 1

Taking my children out in the car this morning to enjoy our morning walk with the dog. One of my snotty kids (three of them have colds) said, “Mummy is a better driver than you.” Picture: envyxme I replied, “WHAT!” Clarification was forthcoming in the form of, “Well Mummy has never crashed the car like [...]

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