This post has nothing to do with parenting. It has everything to do, however, with famous dogs that are now dead. Why? Because this is my blog, that’s why, and I’ll write whatever I darn well please. While some of us have our favourite actors or actresses, some may harbour particular admiration for a canine. [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Four Famous Dogs Who Were Totally Alive But Aren’t Any More
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged digby, dog, dogs, dulux, eddie, frasier, lassie, woof on May 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Why High-Fives Should Be Standard Business Practice
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged handshake, high five, obama, UN, united nations on May 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Handshakes are so boring. So business-like and formal. That’s no way to greet someone else, or open a meeting. Plus, it’s a great way to spread disease. Swine flu? The Bubonic Plague? AIDS? All spread by handshakes. You dirty beggars. So, if I had my way, all handshakes would be banned, and replaced by high-fives. [...]
An Apology to My Parents
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged affection, alcohol, beer, gloria estefan, kissing, parenting, tigers on May 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Sorry guys. Being a parent myself, I have finally come to realise how much you put up with me when I was little. Not the bad exam results, I mean, or general naughtiness: those weird little things that, when noticed, must have made you facepalm and just think: ‘Great. We’ve spawned a prat.’ Things like [...]
The Men’s Wimbledon Final: A Prediction
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged djokovic, murray, nadal, tennis, wimbledon on May 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
11 a day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baby, fashion, grazia, petition, sands, stillbirth, stillborn on May 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Eleven babies a day. Eleven lives which should have been lived. One baby every two hours, stillborn. You’d be forgiven for thinking that this statistic belongs to a third world country, but unfortunately it’s a tad closer to home than that. In April, medical journal The Lancet published a series of reports which revealed that the [...]
It’s an Outrage
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dog, funny, news, picnic on May 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I tweeted about some shocking local news. No fewer than THREE DOGS trampled on some poor woman’s picnic whilst she was enjoying a summer afternoon in the park. Not only that, but they jumped on her dog. When she confronted the owner of the three ruffian pooches, she got a very terse [...]
Down the Road, Not Across the Street
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, infants, kids, parenting, stress on May 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Warning: Emo post alert. I don’t write many, so I hope you’ll forgive me. Today has been one of those days. Not just one of those days, but one of those flipping days when you insert a word like ‘flipping’ between the words ‘those’ and ‘days’. Nothing particularly bad has happened today. Any other day, [...]
Interview: DaddyNatal
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged antenatal, birth, classes, daddynatal, midwife, pregnancy on May 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I had a piece published on Parentdish, about a man’s view of antenatal classes. In it, I quote Dean Beaumont, who stopped whinging about how tailored towards the mum antenatal classes are, got off his bum, and did something about it. He set up DaddyNatal, a dads-only antenatal class (which the Daily [...]
Spice Up Your Life
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bomb, code, dreams, hacker, jack bauer, james bond, jason bourne, obama, rally on May 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Crumbs, my life is pretty dull. Not awfully dull, like I want to top myself or anything; just not as exciting as I envisaged it would be when I was a child. I was one of those kids who put a playing card in the spokes of his bike, so it sounded like I was zooming [...]
The Terrible Threes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child, infant, terrible threes, terrible twos on May 8, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Isn’t it funny how one minute your kids can be really sweet, and the next you want to hang them by their feet from the rotary drier in the garden and give it a good spin? My eldest – Isaac – is 3, and in that phase of constantly pushing boundaries to see what he [...]
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