Canny absolutely love my kids like. Olive tonight’s been in bed with us. I put her back down in her own room and she got up a few minutes later to go to the toilet on her own. - it’s the first time that I know of that she’s done that rather than going in her nappy… it’ll be a few months yet, but probably means we’re starting to see the back of ( Read more... )

Bought a Honda Civic today. How very 50 year old man of me. Also bought some private reg number plates with the last of Dad’s dosh. He wouldn’t approve ( Read more... )

Freya just woke up. I was watching Goodfellas for the first time downstairs and heard her so went up. She’s so cute! Bless her. She’s just finished with nappies at night time and I think had been up to go to the toilet ( Read more... )

Will try and write this post before midnight. It’s currently 23:31 ( Read more... )

I've been reading through my last few year's posts - the public and private ones. I'll attempt to reference all the topics. This may be a bit jumping from one thing to another ( Read more... )

Hey hey ( Read more... )

4 weeks ago my parents invited Rachel and I around, to tell us Dad has stage 4 cancer. And that he was beginning treatment later in the month. Although it was Stage 4, the doctors gave some good odds. And father seemed ok about it… I didn’t really worry as I expected 2 years treatment initially as they said ( Read more... )

Yesterday morn just after 4am Jas woke me with stroke symptoms. Unintelligible speech, numbness in her face and leg, clearly distressed. We rang 999 and an ambulance came in 10 minutes, which is a miracle in itself as the NHS is currently overwhelmed with patients and a fucking SHIT government but let’s not get into that today ( Read more... )

I’d like a dog.

It occurs to me as I lay here on Olive’s floor, whispering at her to close her eyes and go to sleep, that I’ll not have a child as young as her again. She’s fought sleep since 9pm due to a cold that’s been picking members of the household off one by one this week, with a longer than is reasonable fatigue/recovery time ( Read more... )