Nostalgia’s a funny old thing. You recall childhood things with a fondness and rose-tinted viewpoint. But sometimes things that seemed wonderful as a child can seem awful through the eyes of an adult. Take Charlie And The Chocolate Factory for instance. A true children’s classic, following a poverty-stricken young boy and the golden ticket that changes [...]
Getting my back waxed has been on my to-do list since last year. Something about a hairy back is a massive turn-off for me, and as you get older the hairs get even uglier, like a giant carpet of pubes covering your back. And I’m not even as hairy as the guy in the picture!
I’m an atheist. It’s not something I wear on my sleeve because I’m not a militant atheist. I don’t walk around my town wearing a sandwich board declaring everything that’s wrong or objectionable about scripture. That’s the Internet’s job. In real life though, I’ve never been made to feel dirty or discriminated against because of [...]
So what’d you get for Christmas? I got an iPhone 4. And though I’d been hinting heavily to Lisa about getting one, I honestly didn’t expect to receive one! What was really funny was that Lisa gave me a decoy present first – a Bluray player. The box was clearly too big to be an [...]
Tonight we go to bed with the smell of sawdust in our lungs. After almost eight years in our house, we’ve had some new wardrobes fitted in our bedroom. They’re called Sliderobes. I mention that because I’m not sure if that’s a common name all over the world. When we first moved in, it was [...]
We’re always saying that we should start eating more healthily, but the biggest problem from my point of view is actually choosing foods to replace the unhealthy stuff with. Luckily, I have a fitness freak sister-in-law who took it upon herself to free the thin person within me – and came up with this sample [...]
We went out for Lisa’s birthday on Saturday night and had a nice, boisterous, drunken time. Lisa’s mum stayed in our house with the kids while we stayed overnight in her house. A brilliant arrangement and we didn’t have to be home too early. The end of the night is actually the most memorable. We initially [...]
Seamus was a substitute teacher who taught our class in the last year of primary school. We kind of called him Seamus behind his back because he lived just down the road from us, and that’s what the parents called him. I remember we’d been doing some lessons about the dangers of smoking. It was [...]
I got a nice email this afternoon from Amy over at Earnest Parenting to tell me I made her radar of parenting heroes with my last blog post about being the eldest child. As I said to Amy when I responded to her, it’s an ill-deserved award, considering how sporadically I post here, but I’m thankful anyway. [...]
One of our goals in becoming self-employed is to increase our focus on our family. Lisa and I are both concerned about dividing our time properly between the business and our home life. And of course, working from home has the added opportunity for us to devote more time to the family. If we plan it right. [...]
