Weekend Rugby

Posted on Mon 19 September 2011 in general • Tagged with rugby, rwc2011

While last weekend involved a hilarious last minute rush to get a proxied ITV player working while in Paris this weekends England game just involved getting up at 6.50 on a Sunday morning. As some have pointed out I am not yet a Dad so this early awakening on …


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Ministry of Nanny

Posted on Tue 13 September 2011 in general • Tagged with babies, breasts, feeding, parentcraft

We had our third and final Parent Craft lesson tonight which covered everything from 3rd stage labour to breast feeding and bathing. Most of it was useful stuff and it was nice to be able to ask some questions of the trained midwives. However the section on breast-feeding could do …


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We'll always have Paris

Posted on Tue 13 September 2011 in general • Tagged with babies, parenting, paris

We spent a rather spiffy weekend in Paris on the occasion of Fliss' Mum's birthday. We were a little out of the centre but in a rather plush penthouse flat kitted out with a full projector based home cinema system as well as a hot tub and roof garden wet-room …


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Flash Looting

Posted on Wed 10 August 2011 in general • Tagged with looting, politics, riots

As the sun rises on a new day and businesses across the country count the cost of the nights violence we awake to a new phenomena. The technology and social networking that brought us the Flash Mob have now brought us the Flash Loot.

When you start hearing some of …


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Bright Lights, Big City

Posted on Fri 05 August 2011 in general • Tagged with beer, london

I took advantage of my proximity to the big city 45 minutes away on the train yesterday. I joined Rich and Al and the growing number of Northern refugees at the Great British Beer Festival at Earls Court. While I'm afforded free entry to most beer festivals courtesy of my …


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