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Category: Family Life & parenting

Two sisters, two different stages of development

As I revealed in this blog post a few weeks ago, Helen, our six year old, has just learned how to ride her bike without stabilisers. Now that she’s on two wheels, she has become the most avid cyclist and is always keen to take her steel horse out for a ride (apologies to all

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Male infertility; would you talk about it?

I can only think of one conversation I’ve had with a man experiencing fertility issues. It was a brief discussion. Considering the guy was a stereotypical, football-mad, successful, driven, hard drinking bloke, it was, nonetheless, an open conversation. A new survey into the subject of male infertility shows this chap was something of a rarity.

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An Officially Amazing day with Guinness World Records

Childhood has changed hugely over the years. When I consider the experiences I had as a youngster and compare them to my own kids’ upbringing, things are very different indeed. I started school at an older age, computer games were in their infancy and children’s TV was screened for an hour on weekdays between 4.30pm

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The family skip; an update

The other day I wrote this blog post about hiring a skip to de-clutter the family home. I’ve been de-cluttering on and off for several days and have to say it was one of the best decisions I’ve made in a long time. I have managed to clear so much junk out of the house.

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Rainbow Trust ‘Big Hour’ campaign

Rainbow Trust is a magnificent charity that provides support to families that have a child with a life-threatening condition. A few months ago I published this post about Craig Snow and his daughter Alisia, who was given a one in ten chance of survival at birth but is now two year’s old. It showed the

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