ORGANISING, CANCELLING AND RE-ORGANISING KID’S PARTIES
FOREWORD This one first appeared on the Facebook page, back on October 7, in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Sixteen. It’s been repackaged here with a shorter title, new headings, and… That’s it. Those...
HALF TERM: TYNEMOUTH / TURD HANDS
PROLOGUE With Half Term drawing to a close, I thought I’d sack off my folks’ weekly visit and make something of this Saturday afternoon. And by “make something” I mean, “take the boys to a...
HALF TERM ANECDOTE 1: INCIDENTS AT PADDY FREEMAN’S PARK
PREAMBLE ABOUT HALF TERM Man, I hate half term. It’s not the spending time with your kids that’s annoying – although it is. No, being just a week long, half term is like a super condensed version of the summer...
DAD’S BOOZE REVIEW: CHAMPIGNEULLES “CONTINENTAL LAGER”
I’m a man with a beard in his late 30’s, and as such it’s my constitutional right to wank off about beer. Not with REAL wank though… With words. REVIEWS I’m also a family man with a family, with all...
HEAVILY PADDED CHILDREN’S PASSPORT PHOTOGRAPH ANECDOTE
Later this year – thanks to the gift Great Grand Parental death – we’re going on our first family holiday. What’s more, it’s one of those fancy foreign holidays you see on Facebook. FUCK Japan and...
‘SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE’ – AN ANALYSIS
Welcome to the first of a new series, in which I offer a critical appraisal of films suitable for children and or families. In each edition, I’ll provide a fun, pithy overview, and attempt to gauge how much the film in...