In October 2008 we went to Blackpool for the illuminations. The hotel we stayed in was nice, but the room - with an under-size bed and views of a shed through a small, bird poo-covered window - was terrible. So I wrote them a letter of complaint and was offered a free two night stay in one of the upgraded rooms at the hotel.
We returned to ( Read more... )

I got an unusual Christmas present this year.

We were booked in on Christmas Eve for a Caesarean. My parents came down a couple of days beforehand because they were babysitting Sparrow for us.

Emma was told that she wasn’t allowed to eat anything after 10pm the night before

We were still hoping that things would happen earlier, even as ( Read more... )

It's National Poetry Day, so this is a poem about our nation, and this is a poem about advice

The last time I blogged we were about to go for a scan to discover whether Seahorse, the new baby, is a boy or a girl.

She’s a girl.

This means that we don’t have to pick from the list of uninspiring boys’ names that we had drafted.
It also means that I won a bet that meant I had breakfast bought for me after the scan.

I don’t remember ( Read more... )

It's very nearly two years since I wrote this. And, somehow, it's happened again ( Read more... )

Back in April I was staying at my parents’ house in Prestatyn. Emma and I had been to Llandudno. After we got back we put the baby to bed and my ordered a take away from the local Indian takeaway.

Being a real mans’ man I ordered a Chicken Korma, a dish I have pretty much every time I go for a curry.

(Except when they have offers on where you get ( Read more... )

This is a poem about a Seahorse:

http://adrokspoems.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/167/

In my last blog post I talked about how I had been invited to film an episode of the gameshow “Common Denominator”.

Filming was on the 8th December at BBC Television Centre. I had to be there for 10:30am.  I was asked to take three or four outfits, all in bright colours, but with no logos and no stripey patterns.

A lady from the production company ( Read more... )

In November I filled in an application form to be on a new gameshow called Common Denominator. A couple of days after sending it off I got a phone call inviting me down to the Endemol studios in that London for an audition.

The confirmation email that I was sent gave me directions to the offices and advised me to arrive 15 minutes before the start ( Read more... )

The squirrels from my last blog post have, officially at least, left the building. The only evidence of their former presence seems to be some bits of chewed wood and some droppings that the Mouse Man missed when he was tidying up after them. So if anyone would like a definitive answer the eternal ‘is squirrel shit nutty?’ question then I know how ( Read more... )