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Tell them about the honey, Daddy
Just before Christmas, the good people over at the New Zealand Honey Co asked me if I would like to take part in their ‘natural remedy challenge’. The idea being that they send me a box of natural...
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Not on the High Street
When you name your kids Storm, Kaede and Nate you are often hard pushed to find anything with their names on in the High Street shops. It’s not something you consider when you are playing the naming...
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I recently asked myself the question ‘Am I depressed or do depressing things keep happening to me?’ I sat and thought about this for about a month before I actually uttered it out loud – and in that...
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A Sporting Chance
The notice on the door read “The children will be taking part in a sporting event so can you please ensure they are wearing sports clothing on Thursday…” An innocent enough request, in fact it was...
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Our Greatest Team Rises
BP have recently launched a set of new medallions called the BP Legends Collection – a series of 12 medallions depicting ten British Olympic and two British Paralympic winning moments from past Games....
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Drifting and Doughnuts
As a blogger of ill-repute, I am occasionally invited to attend sponsored PR events. Sometimes I come back from these events wondering what on earth I was going to write about. Other times I would...
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Lego Batman 2
Anyone that knows me would readily testify that I’m quite a keen gamer, maybe a bit too keen at times (those times being housework time, going to bed time and doing some DIY time). So when I was asked...
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EdUKaid
Here’s a question. Is my cousin’s wife my cousin-in-law, my cousin-out-law or just someone my cousin married? Its questions like these that, despite having access to the internet, I wonder about for...
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Philips Avance Grill
This is a sponsored post brought to you, in part, by those clever people at Philips. They have recently launched a product perfect for our English Summers… an indoor Barbeque. So when they asked me...
View ArticleMissing Who?
So my eldest daughter started University this week, which is surprising really as she is only seven years old. Well in my head she is anyway. I can still see her in her bridesmaid dress when me and...
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Gaggia Gelatiera
A couple of weeks ago those lovely people at Phillips asked me if I wanted to try out an ice cream maker. Being the dutiful husband that I am, I checked with the wife first, although unfortunately I...
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As funny as a heart attack
So I’m running, I can’t hear them coming but I know they are. I stupidly turn around and they’re even nearer now, a row of snarling stone teeth. The weeping angels are catching me. Thankfully I wake...
View ArticleThe Absence
A few weeks ago we kept Kaede off school because she had been up all night coughing and looked generally unwell. We still had to take Nate to school, so as she walked past Kaede’s classroom The Mrs...
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A Warner Christmas
This week a Christmas goodie bag arrived from Warner Brothers for me. I waited until everyone else had left the house as my lot are like hyenas sniffing around an entertainment carcass whenever boxes...
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Jamie Oliver HomeCooker
A couple of months back I was invited to Jamie Oliver’s ‘Fifteen’ restaurant for the launch of the HomeCooker, a new kitchen appliance co-created by Jamie and Philips. The HomeCooker is a...
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A match made in heaven
I recently received an invite from Neil McGuigan, chief winemaker at McGuigan Wines, and John Torode, MasterChef host and chef, to launch their new recipe collection. They had collaborated to produce...
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An OXO Mothers Day
Recently those good people at OXO contacted me to ask if I wanted any help making Mothers Day a fun and special day by sending me one of their ‘Mother’s Day Magic’ Meal kits. I was looking for a bit...
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A real bowel movement
April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month and Beating Bowel Cancer are asking us all to get involved in a bowel movement. I know what you’re thinking, easy right, I mean jeez, I can even fake a bowel...
View ArticleI remember
Riding home from school on your crossbarsYou teaching me to ride the bike you made for me Sacks of ice cream stolen by your best mateHow your moustache tickledHow you looked without that moustache for...
View ArticleDear Tottenham Hotspur PR
I just recieved this email from a Totenham Hotspur PRHi, Tottenham Hotspur cordially invites you to the unveiling of the world’s first fully-interactive digital experience for children to be created...
View ArticleOne Year On
There’s been a first birthday, a first Christmas, a first Fathers Day and a first ‘how the hell do you prepare that surface?’ moment.It’s not until someone has gone do you realise how big a shadow they...
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Pitch your #First
Last week I was invited by Vodafone to attend the launch of their #First campaign. In layman’s terms they want to throw a shed load of money at someone to create their ‘first’ something, something...
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Believe It or Not
Like everyone else, I get a lot of emails every day. Some good, most bad. Some interesting, most spam. Then you get those ones that seem too good to be true, mostly from Nigerian bankers that want to...
View ArticleHow the Grinch nearly stole Christmas
Every Who Down in Who-villeLiked Christmas a lot... But the Grinch,Who lived just North of Who-ville,Did NOT! The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!Now, please don't ask why. No one...
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Our FA Cup Adventure
And so it starts again. Getting ready for the match, nerves building, pre-match rituals established, planning the day and match ahead. Only this time it’s different, this time it’s her first time, her...
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