SWINGS AND ROUNDABOUTS

In case the title of this week’s column has led you to believe that this is going to be a merry, twee little tale of childhood joys in the local playground, I should warn you right now that it ain’t. About that. At all. No, the ’swings and roundabouts’ I’m talking about are of the [...]

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I AM FATHER TAKES ONE WEEK OFF…

Yes folks, that’s right…I’d like to call it a vacation but I’m not entirely sure that’s accurate. Put it this way, I’ve engaged in some UN-type mediation within the household, it’s the last week before double-school hits (High and pre…hahahaha, what a mixture, indeed, I wish I were ‘high’ and ‘pre’ half the bloody time [...]

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SIGN LANGUAGE…

The toddler has entered a strange little phase. 
From somewhere (and let’s face it, who can be sure given the amount of potential sources available to her rapid-fire mind) she has suddenly decided to sometimes employ sign language to substitute the words ‘yes’ and ‘no’. ‘Yes’ is gestured as a finger in the air moving up [...]

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SHE MADE ME THE FATHER I AM…

As regular readers will know, I just got back from seeing my Mum in Berkshire, England.
She is in the middle of her second dance with cancer (the bastard decided to come back for more despite being booted out of the ballroom first spin around) and thus with my wife and family’s help, I carved out [...]

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A DAY LATE (and about a million dollars short come to think of it…)

Due to the fact that the actual task of parenting and working and breathing appears to have eaten up the 90-odd minutes on a Monday night/Tuesday morning when I can pen these columns, the latest I AM FATHER…will now be up by the end of the day tomorrow. The truth is that deadline work gets [...]

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