The news that UK schools were to close as a result of coronavirus initially made me despair. The implications of a long school closure have the potential to be very serious. Although the news was inevitable, I felt sad, worried and a sense of melancholy. After a few hours, I began to think differently about
It was about 9am. I’d just dropped the kids off at school and I was stood in a local pharmacy waiting to pay for some goods. As I waited, I noticed several empty shelves. I took a closer look and realised all of the generic branded children’s pain relief and generic brand paracetamol tablets had
You could be forgiven for thinking the National Literacy Trust was all about books and reading. In fact, the Trust says that literacy starts well before you can read and that you should “talk to your baby.”
I haven’t posted much photography on Dadbloguk recently. The opportuniteies to get out with my camera just haven’t presented themselves. Earlier this week, however, I was in London with my DSLR camera following heavy rain. There were amazing photographic opportunities all over the place because of the reflections in the puddles. This picture of the
I have just had the most bizarre weekend. The idea was to pick the kids up from school on Friday and drive the hundred miles or-so back home, where I grew up, to visit my parents, brothers and their families. At that time on a Friday, we should have been back in time for an
