Parenting a small child is not easy.
Last night was our annual Christmas meet up, this time at Juey and Charlie's new house. Genuinely lovely night and great hosting! It was also a massive bonus that everyone being the lovely sorts they are, seemed to take turns Ollie wrangling. Olephant loved the evening and the attention he got, resulting in him becoming... Continue Reading →
Final day of boys week started rather late due to Ollie on Thursday night/Friday morning deciding that sleep was a rather old hat and a bit too conformist for him to take part in. This meant that by the time his avant garde broken sleeping style finally pieced itself together it was about 4.30am and... Continue Reading →
Day 4: Nothing much of note happened today. A parent/small person Christmas party was attended at Little Hurricanes, surprisingly not a horrific experience. Lots of small people being really rather well behaved and not monstrous. Some of Pose's friends made me feel a little less awkward at being the only dad there. Ollie was a... Continue Reading →
Day 3: Today was a little less all over the place and largely involved a grand expedition to the mysterious locale of Longborough quarry. As a side note Ollie has officially developed his first passive aggressive little toad trait, it involves his car seat. His car seat is at the best of times a fiendishly... Continue Reading →
Day 2: Spoiler: No major atrocities occurred today. Slimbridge went as expected. Ollie adamantly quacked at a Goose (Lesser White Fronted) and continued to shout duck at it in a very determined manner. The Goose eventually retreated looking existentially confused. This story played itself out time and again around the rest of Slimbridge with a... Continue Reading →
Day 1 of Boys week: As Rosie is stuck at school for another week and I am not (not smirking honest!), the Olephant and I have a week of adventure ahead. Day 1 of this involved a stay and play session at the Olephants nursery. In a very unlike Ollie manner, the first half an... Continue Reading →
Snow day numbers 1 and 2 have come, Ollie had decided as parents we weren't exciting enough so went all Scott of the Antarctic on us and decided to venture forth to bring in vital supplies. We decided that at 19 months he may require some form of supervision so followed on dutifully. After yesterday... Continue Reading →
Ollie sums up my feelings in the most eloquent manner about the idea of work tomorrow. It's not as though it's been a hectic weekend, I just feel as though it's been a weekend that has short changed me on the valid rest front. It's worth pointing out that despite looking as though he's been... Continue Reading →
So Rosie, the Olephant and I went Pumpkin picking with some of Rosie's friends. It was awesome fun and Ollie only licked 2 pumpkins, 1 sign and some tarmac...so an improvement on other recent outings. We also now are the proud owner of a small pumpkin that Ollie seems determined to call Duncan. Love half... Continue Reading →
Torrential rain and 50+ mile an hour winds last night gave way to an awesome day today weather-wise. The days activities were also great fun despite Ollie and Rosie tagging along and cramping my style. Ollie went for his first paddle in the sea, and very quickly ran away from his first paddle in the... Continue Reading →
Parenting a Monster. 
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