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...
This category of my main blog is really for people who know me, or want to understand more about what makes me tick. Most of the posts from this category won’t appear in my main blog so you will need to subscribe direct, which you can do by subscribing to...
Kathy has yet another amazing post on her Creating Passionate Users site about the fact that animals love exercise, and she questions why we don’t. Well whilst I think its a great article with wonderful pictures of her horses if she came around to my house and saw my four...
As regular readers know I work from home and have a pretty structured workday, partly because of the demands of my job and partly as a coping strategy for a rare form of systemic arthritis that I suffer from. Having recently read a post titled Don’t take orders from your calendar...
I had 10 days off over easter, and we walked every day, and had good weather most days. We didn’t travel very far afield but there are loads of great walks within 20 miles of my house. By the end of the holiday I was feeling great, a few aching...
My youngest daughters (twins) have been studying smoking, Tessa has just finished her anti-smoking poster, which I wanted to share with you: Don’t smoke because people out there have died. Just because of cigarettes and people suffered from lots of illnesses. So you will get illnesses. Children can get Asthma...