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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Actually, it's just me that needs you. The army has nothing to do with it.

Calling all Agents

June 25, 2010by Ben Wakeling 3 Comments

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 […]

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fatherhood, funny, parenting, pregnancy
angry-bear

Week Twenty Five: If it starts to attack, just play dead

June 25, 2010by Ben Wakeling 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 […]

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fatherhood, funny, parenting, pregnancy, Uncategorized
Thumbs up!

GPB Prize Giveaway…the Winners are Revealed!

June 21, 2010by Ben Wakeling 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 […]

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fatherhood, funny, parenting, Uncategorized
This is you.

Happy Father’s Day!

June 20, 2010by Ben Wakeling 4 Comments
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fatherhood, funny, parenting
Mine was like this.

Week Twenty Four: No more discharge than usual, ma’am

June 18, 2010by Ben Wakeling 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 […]

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fatherhood, funny, parenting, pregnancy, Uncategorized
Save the Children

Save the Children this Father’s Day

June 17, 2010by Ben Wakeling 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. […]

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fatherhood, parenting
Oh, yeah: and she sounds like one of these.

Week Twenty Three: Would you like a crane?

June 11, 2010by Ben Wakeling 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 […]

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fatherhood, funny, parenting, pregnancy
An example of the aforementioned elegance.

Week Twenty Two: Dum, dum, dum-dum, dum, dum, dum-dum

June 4, 2010by Ben Wakeling 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 […]

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fatherhood, funny, parenting
That's right, I was talking about you two. You might well look sheepish.

Time to get voting…

June 3, 2010by Ben Wakeling 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 […]

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award, fatherhood, funny, parenting, pregnancy

“Is this thing on?”

June 1, 2010by Ben Wakeling 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 […]

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