Category: Family Life & parenting

Family Life & parenting

Father’s Day lensball special!

To mark father’s Day, I thought I’d publish a special photo. Both my kids, Helen and Izzy, have been kept busy taking images for the school photography club during lockdown. Izzy has been a little obsessed with my Lensball and this is an image she took for this week’s photography club assignment.

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Family Life & parenting

Kitchen Craft: A good range of gifts? #AD

Are you still looking for Father’s Day gifts? Maybe you’ve been so busy homeschooling and homeworking that you’ve overlooked the occasion (It’s this Sunday, 21 June in case you needed a reminder!)? If this applies to you, don’t panic. I have taken a look at the Kitchen Craft range and have outlined a few ideas

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Family Life & parenting

Father’s Day Giveaway with Mainline Menswear #AD

“I love your trendy clothes daddy,” said my eldest daughter Helen as I came down the stairs wearing my latest delivery from Mainline Menswear. I don’t often get such compliments from my daughters so I had clearly chosen well! What’s best is that I have partnered with Mainline Menswear to run a Father’s Day giveaway

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Family Life & parenting

The much misunderstood world of the stepchild

A little while ago I received a phone call from a journalist. In a cheery voice, she explained she was doing some research for a news story about stepfamilies. A survey was about to be published showing the majority of respondents thought the phrase “step” was outdated when referring to step relatives and stepfamilies. She

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Family Life & parenting

A step closer to sitting maths GCSE #ad

News alert! I am planning to sit the maths GCSE this November. It’s something I have been talking about for a couple of years but at long last I am doing something about it, addressing this open wound left over from my school days.

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