Category: Diary of a dad

  • Circus photos

    Finally getting round to processing some photo sets and putting them onto Flickr. Starting with this trip to the circus a few weeks ago. Tabby loved it.

  • Brighton Children’s Parade

    I’m not very good at this internet thing. It’s supposed to be instantaneous but I’ve only just got round to posting these shots from May 1st. It’s Brighton’s Children’s Parade, which opened the festival. Tabby was a cactus. Obviously.

  • Is this chicken pox?

    Tabby has become a medical mystery. There’s an outbreak of chicken pox at her nursery, and she’s covered in spots. The thing is, she’s had chicken pox twice already – a mild outbreak as a baby, and then a proper dose less than a year ago with all the flu and the scratching. For the…

  • Every town should have…

    A giant indoor soft play centre. Four stories of foam filled fun.

  • Christmas Eve…

    This was Tabby’s first ‘proper’ Christmas. For the last two she was a bit too young to really understand what goes on, but with 12 months of well-remembered birthday parties under her belt she had a good idea that something was coming. Someone at nursery must have prepped her well too – she knew plenty…

  • Translation

    When a two year old crawls into bed and says she wants to sleep more with Mummy and Daddy, what she means is she wants to wait until you’ve dozed off again so it’s double the fun prodding and poking you in the eye.

  • Half an hour well spent

    Finally got round to puttinng together the second hand trampoline Tamsin bought a year ago. Half an hour ago, this was a pile of screws, poles and bungee cord. And no instructions.

  • Fear of the dark

    It would appear that the little one has finally developed a fear of the dark. This is unfortunate. Since she was six months old she’s slept through the night with the door closed and without the need for a night light. The last few days, she’s lept out of bed as soon as we’ve gone…