Tag Archives: Tom

One

Posted on 05/06/2010 by

Tom turns 1, and walks! Continue reading →

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Predictability

Posted on 04/06/2010 by

I’m a gadget freak, except when it comes to toys, when I seem to be a bit of a luddite. Continue reading →

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The Great Toddler Bedtime Book Conspiracy

Posted on 25/05/2010 by

In which I fight the war against bedtime propaganda in children’s books. Continue reading →

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The Persistence of Bananas

Posted on 19/05/2010 by

My son has developed a Theory on the Persistence of Bananas, and I’m rightfully proud. Continue reading →

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Fledgling

Posted on 15/05/2010 by

Tom sat in the garden, so entranced by the sunny day going on around him that he barely moved. Continue reading →

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Entropy Anthropomorphised

Posted on 14/05/2010 by

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 →

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10 Long Months

Posted on 21/04/2010 by

Tom turned 10 months old at the start of April, and already memories of the early months of his life are starting to slip from my mind. It doesn’t seem possible, for example, that for more than half his life … Continue reading →

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I'm being selfishly manipulated, and I love it

Posted on 28/09/2009 by

One of the many things you can never be adequately prepared for as a father is just how much unfeasibly cute behaviour your sprog comes pre-programmed with. To describe the recent assault that Tom has mounted on my Victorian Fatherly … Continue reading →

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Once apon a time

Posted on 25/08/2009 by

Bumpity bumpity bumpity bump, Here comes the galloping major! Bumpity bumpity bumpity bump, Here comes the galloping major! All the girls declare, He’s a grand old stager! Hi ho, here we go! Here comes the galloping major! So sing I … Continue reading →

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The best laid birth plans

Posted on 14/06/2009 by

“I’ll almost certainly be a dad my tomorrow night,” I said. You’d think I’d have learnt my lesson, wouldn’t you? Thomas didn’t actually turn up until lunchtime on the day after that; and it had been, I can honestly say, … Continue reading →

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