It can get pretty windy by the coast, but that’s no excuse for not getting out their and having fun, in fact we all enjoy braving the elements now and again. I suppose I am a bit obsessive about it because I really do need to get quite a bit...
My eldest two girls have a difficult – love/hate – relationship like most sisters, and very unlike the twins who are more like best of friends and always have been since the shared the same cot when we bought them home from hospital. They continue to enjoy each others company,...
We have extensive sand dunes which provide our main sea defences but more importantly provide a wonderful place for the kids to play, we often walk home from the park in the evening along the dunes, which means quite a lot of difficult climbs. By the time we get home...
My Nan had a cottage in a small village near Mablethorpe on the North East coast of England so I spent a lot of my childhood on the beach and I realised when I started looking for a place to settle down that it had to be next to water. In fact...
Although the addition of a 12’ trampoline to the garden has made the kids much more active, it still amazes me how they love to just sit on it – or under it – to do all manner of activities from playing music to having lunch. In this case the twins...
When I was a kid I used to roam for miles all over the country side around my house and before I was 12 I was often away all day canoeing down the river, exploring the woods or just riding for miles on my bike. For some reason though my...
When I am away from home and think about my kids, I almost always imagine them crowded around the kitchen table doing craft activities. My Wife – Debbie – has always loved craft activities, so four kids is a dream come true from that perspective. In fact she loves planning...
It hardly ever snows in Lytham St Annes, so this picture is pretty important to me, its the first time all my four kids got chance to play in the snow together, in fact they had to wait another 5 years I think for a second opportunity, although by that...
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Last week at work I was promoting the importance of thinking through carefully the business need we were trying to satisfy with our products so that we could watch out for new technologies that might meet that need and disrupt our existing services. My impression is that all too often...