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For the past year or so I have been thinking about enrolling on an Open University (OU) course, to give me a few more accolades to my name. I really enjoy learning new things and whilst the children are young I thought I should expand my knowledge before they get old. I will be looking [...]
Especially at this time of year, there is no specific way to avoid coming down with flu, in fact for the past couple of day the wife has been looking quite sickly and the kids have sported snotty noses. However, there are certain precautions you can take to strengthen your body’s natural defences. Exercise, sleep [...]
How to stop the smell Picture courtesy of bark Having to young boys I don’t have to suffer smelly shoes just yet however I am not looking forward to when they get a bit older and their shoes start stinking out the house. It’s normally something you can’t get around, according to my mother both [...]
I had to bob out last night right after tea to pick my brother up after his car wouldn’t start and take him to work. He rang during tea but it was my favourite beef and ale stew with dumplings so I couldn’t really leave it! I think he sorted out a life back home [...]
All last week the news was spouting off ominous weather warnings stating that we would freeze to death with artic conditions, and sending people into panic buying! On Saturday morning as I headed out with the wife to do our weekly shop I was surprised at how busy it was, you would have thought that [...]
The wife and I normally try to have one New Year’s resolution that we stick at, last year we both cut out eating unhealthy sweets and snack, which we also included the children in. There were exceptions such as Easter, Halloween, Christmas and birthdays where we could indulge in a treat but the rest of [...]
I had new windows fitted over the Christmas break whilst I had time off work. It was a fairly big job because they all needed replacing including our Velux windows in our loft due to age and wear and tear. Luckily placement wasn’t changing so no brick work needed to be altered but there was [...]
This year I did try to grow a crop of pumpkins ready for Halloween however they did not really turn out to be much a bit small really! So this weekend I took the kids to a local farm that was having a pumpkin day which turned out to be a lot of fun! I [...]
As a father to young children who use the internet I was glad to see that four of the UK’s internet providers have vowed to make customers ‘opt in’ to view porn. Although I have parental controls on my house computer which the children use, I will be able to also choose yes or no [...]
So after a week at work suffering unusually high temperatures for this time of year, I did get to enjoy it this weekend with the family. The beginning of October on Saturday saw the hottest October in a century which meant this weekend many of us were able to enjoy weather we were wanting over [...]