What makes a Dad?
So anyone can be a father. It’s a quick biological act, that results in a baby. That bit, is usually easy. You don’t have to be blood related to someone to be a Dad, either. But makes a Dad? For me, a Dad is the person who loves, and encourages you, who doesn’t judge your life choices, […]
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Our week in Photos 9/06/19 – 15/06/19 – normal is good.
Welcome to Our Week in Photos. Our way of sharing our week and what we get up to with our family abroad and grandparents who like to keep up with our life and antics. This week we have been enjoying normal. Normal is good. The husband is working his way back to getting into a […]
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Cheat’s Roast Potatoes
I LOVE roast potatoes. Crispy on the outside, fluffy in the middle. But I am also very lazy and whilst I do make proper, peeled, boiled then roasted potatoes for special occasions, I mostly make them in a cheat way that satisfies the roast potato need but is way less effort. This cheat version makes […]
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Project 365. A photo a day. Many swan babies…
Project 365. A photo a day, every day of the year. This is a very grainy photo because Daddy swan was getting pretty tetchy the closer I got to his babies, but we are really chuffed and impressed that the swans on our local pond have hatched 6 cygnets. That’s a big brood. We have […]
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How to survive when your kid has exams…
It’s that time of year, almost the end of the academic year, for many, and for us, it’s a new challenge. The tween is facing her first proper set of school exams. She is coming to the end of year 7 and over the next two weeks has 10 exams in various subjects. The exams […]
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Project 365. A photo a day. Roses when it’s raining
Project 365. A photo a day, every day of the year. Summer has vanished. The weather is miserable. It’s June. It’s not right. Have some roses. I have nothing else to say, unless someone wants to send me to a warm beach somewhere for a week?
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How to Train Your Dragon 3 – The Hidden World. Out now on DVD and Blu Ray & A Giveaway
*This is a review post. We were kindly sent a DVD to review and share about* We are BIG fans of How to Train Your Dragon here, and have faithfully read all the books and watched all the movies, ahem, more than once. So we were VERY excited when a new movie, continuing the story […]
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Because geeky Dads like tech for Father’s Day… Neos Smartcam
*This is a review post. We were kindly sent an item to review* Father’s Day is on its way. We have been plotting and planning to treat the Husband (both our own Dads are abroad, so we won’t be seeing them in person, sadly) to breakfast in bed, and then a day trip to somewhere […]
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Our week in photos 01/06/19 – 08/06/19 Short and sweet
Welcome to Our Week in Photos. Our way of sharing our week and what we get up to with our family abroad and grandparents who like to keep up with our life and antics. I haven’t taken many photos this week, mainly because we have been very busy and sometimes life just doesn’t need a […]
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Because Dad loves tech – Snowball iCE Microphone
*This is a review post. We were kindly sent an item to review* Father’s Day is on its way. We have been plotting and planning to treat the Husband (both our own Dads are abroad, so we won’t be seeing them in person, sadly) to breakfast in bed, and then a day trip to somewhere […]
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