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Scans and plans
We made the trip over to Norwich today, to see yet another consultant and get another scan to see how things are going. We thought today would be a scan of the live baby’s heart, but it turned out to … Continue reading
Shouldn’t it be Sir Tumble by now?
What I love and hate about Cbeebies. Well, mainly hate. Continue reading
Movement
This blog has been in limbo for a while because, well, our lives have been in limbo for a while. But a lot has just happened, all of a sudden. Continue reading
Tick-tocks and Mah-mahs
Tom added two “words” to his vocabulary: tick-tock and mah-mah. Continue reading
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I am a Failure as a Father, Already!
I’m not a proper dad. Firstly, I’m not big on football. I don’t hate it, it’s just not an important thing in my life. Like many kids, I got my lifelong indifference to football from my Dad. He didn’t buy … Continue reading
I am Becoming My Dad (#1 of… probably lots)
“Helping” Tom with his toys is just one of the ways I am becoming my Dad. Continue reading
Predictability
I’m a gadget freak, except when it comes to toys, when I seem to be a bit of a luddite. Continue reading
Where it Began (I Can’t Begin to Know When)
There’s a place I remember, it’s jumbled and indistinct because it’s on the very edge of my memory. It’s made up of chunky jumpers with crazy zigzag designs, sandpits with toy boats floating on a sea of coarse orange builder’s … Continue reading
Ignorance = Bliss
With nearly a year of fatherhood under my belt, I feel I’m now in a position to dole out sage advice to new fathers. And it’s mainly to avoid all advice for new fathers, especially the ones that come in books of advice for new fathers. Continue reading
Entropy Anthropomorphised
Scientists have a concept called “entropy”. It is, simply put, the amount of disorder in any given system. Compare, say, a Macintosh to a McFlurry. A Mac doesn’t have much entropy, a McFlurry has loads of the stuff. Things tend … Continue reading
