Not FBI Agents, nor Agents Mulder and Scully. I’m talking literary agents. As you may or may not know, the posts in this blog are simply excerpts from a book I’ve been writing, and as a result is actually about 20 weeks behind reality. What this means, apart from the fact that I’ve confused you [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Week Twenty Five: If it starts to attack, just play dead
Posted in fatherhood, funny, parenting, pregnancy, Uncategorized, tagged babies, baby, bear, dad, dads, early pregnancy, expectant parents, fatherhood, funny, humour, parenting, pregnancy, pregnant, second trimester on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week Jess booked herself a pregnancy massage using the vouchers for the local beauty place that I’d bought her for Christmas. I say ‘bought her for Christmas’, but in reality it was a hurried last-minute purchase on Christmas morning. You see, Jess had – like many other women – told me that this year [...]
GPB Prize Giveaway…the Winners are Revealed!
Posted in fatherhood, funny, parenting, Uncategorized, tagged award, babies, baby, competition, dads, early pregnancy, expectant parents, fatherhood, mums, pregnancy, pregnant, prize, second trimester on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The wait is over, for those of you who have been waiting. The winners of the GPB Prize Giveaway can be found here… Congratulations to everyone who has won, and thanks to all who took part and voted!
Happy Father’s Day!
Posted in fatherhood, funny, parenting, tagged dads, expectant parents, father, fatherhood, fathers day, mums, parenthood, parenting, pregnancy on June 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Week Twenty Four: No more discharge than usual, ma’am
Posted in fatherhood, funny, parenting, pregnancy, Uncategorized, tagged babies, baby, doctor, fatherhood, funny, humor, humour, midwife, parenting, pregnancy, trimester on June 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
With the second trimester being the ‘easiest’ of the trimesters (I put ‘easiest’ in quotation marks so as to imply that none of the trimesters are particularly easy – although both you and I know that if men were the ones who got pregnant we’d breeze through it. Do you ever hear seahorses complaining?), it [...]
Save the Children this Father’s Day
Posted in fatherhood, parenting, tagged aid, charity, emergency, guest, save the children on June 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I was recently asked to write a guest post for Save the Children, whose aim it is to provide essential emergency aid and supplies to families all around the world. I’d be grateful if you could check it out, and also – if you can – find a spare couple of quid to donate to [...]
Week Twenty Three: Would you like a crane?
Posted in fatherhood, funny, parenting, pregnancy, tagged babies, dads, fatherhood, foetus, maternity, mums, parenting, pregnancy, second trimester on June 11, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I’ve made an observation, and it may well be one that you have also made, especially if you share a bed with the mother of your child. You know how when you turn over in bed, it happens in one fluid motion? Well, this goes out the window for her during pregnancy, and ends up [...]
Week Twenty Two: Dum, dum, dum-dum, dum, dum, dum-dum
Posted in fatherhood, funny, parenting, tagged babies, baby, dads, fatherhood, foetus, mums, pregnancy, pregnant, SPD, trimester on June 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“You know those elegant, graceful women on the front of pregnancy magazines?” I say, red-faced and straining as I heave my aching wife off the sofa. “You’re not one of them, are you!” Jess’ SPD is really playing up, to the point where her back is excruciatingly painful most of the time; so far, only [...]
Time to get voting…
Posted in award, fatherhood, funny, parenting, pregnancy, tagged award, babies, competition, contest, fatherhood, funny, parenting, pregnancy, prizes on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The chance to submit your story to win something awesome in the GPB Prize Giveaway is now over, leaving us with almost twenty excellent anecdotes where people just like you (or the person next to you) have been kind or foolish enough to tell us the funniest or most embarrassing thing that happened to them [...]
“Is this thing on?”
Posted in Uncategorized on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The lovely people at BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire allowed me onto their breakfast show yesterday morning to whitter on about my blog and the MADs Awards. Feel free to drift off to my dulcet tones… Ben Wakeling on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Thanks to Annie Othen, Vanessa the producer and the nice lady that [...]
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