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Monthly Archives: December 2011

So very lovely, made from love.

December 29, 2011by Ben Wakeling 8 Comments

About ten minutes ago, I typed the final few words of my book for SANDS onto Microsoft Word (which just so happened to be Stevie Wonder lyrics) and sat back […]

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Video: Guy Dances to Dubstep on the Great Wall of China

December 26, 2011by Ben Wakeling 1 Comment

I bet when you were drunkenly dancing to Christmas songs you looked like this. At least you thought you did.

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This is just for illustration only. I didn't actually buy my child a gun for Christmas.

The Curse of the Instruction Manual, or Being a Weedy Man

December 25, 2011by Ben Wakeling 2 Comments

Aah, the instruction manual. The bane of my life. Real Men don’t need them, of course. Real Men can look at a cot, or a toy, or a wardrobe, and […]

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It's there somewhere...

Silent Sunday

December 25, 2011by Ben Wakeling 9 Comments
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Good tidings we bring, to you and your…

December 24, 2011by Ben Wakeling Leave a comment
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I want to eat my child’s face

December 22, 2011by Ben Wakeling 9 Comments

It’s one of the strangest feelings you get as a parent, I find. It’s love, of course, but it is love which lingers under a strange surface, like a pond […]

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Here's mine, for example.

Is the Daily Mail written by chimps?

December 21, 2011by Ben Wakeling 1 Comment

Hate is a strong word, as the Plain White T’s once sang, and I wouldn’t say that I hate the Daily Mail. In fact, it’s an odd relationship that I […]

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Video: People Struggling With Escalators

December 18, 2011by Ben Wakeling 1 Comment

Well, they are pretty darn tricky.

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If we didn’t have kids…

December 17, 2011by Ben Wakeling 6 Comments

Most of the conversations I have with my wife begin with the words ‘If we didn’t have kids…’ In fact, so many that I even tweeted to this effect, on 20 October […]

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Video: Dancing Man Gets Pushed Off Train, Probably Continues Grooving

December 17, 2011by Ben Wakeling 1 Comment

This is what happens when you get your groove on in Essex. You just watch, in a couple of days the Daily Mail will be all over this. Edit: What […]

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Little Horrors

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20 years from now

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The horror of playgroups

Potty training: easier said than done

How fortunate we are

Things I’m Doing

16th April 2013: Publication of 'How I Came To Hold You', my book for Sands. Read more about the book by visiting sandsbook.co.uk

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