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We rarely see Father Christmas in the same venue twice and having already done the Santa Train, Hamley’s and the High Legh garden centre Santa in previous years, we were on the hunt for somewhere […]

Life events don’t come much bigger than moving home, especially if you have little ones. So how do you lovingly explain to them that you plan to pack up all they know and move it […]

In many ways, Christmas Eve is much more fun than the big day itself. The sense of anticipation, the excitement of things to come and a variety of Christmas Eve traditions. Ours starts with Christingle […]

By the time we arrive at the School Christmas Fair, my children are so excited that they are barely able to control themselves. When I deny my youngest son some lavender bath bombs from the […]

Fatherhood has changed me. No doubt about it. I think differently, act more sensibly. I’ve become more empathetic, compassionate – I feeeel more. I also have less hair, more wrinkles and a twitch developing over […]

It’s 7.30pm. The children are at last in bed and, in theory, I can sit down and relax before bed. But no! Instead, I sit down for two minutes and then get up to start […]

There is a whole world of carbootery out there, and a car boot sale can be great fun with kids, whether you are a buyer or a seller.  These events get very busy on sunny […]

We sold our television. And yes, it feels amazing! The thought of not having one was a little alternative – even for home-birthing, baby-wearing, co-sleeping parents like us. But the notion kept recurring, could we […]

Sometimes the funniest party games are the ones that make people look a bit silly. The trick is to let the kids play them if they want to, but never make them feel pressurised to […]

It had been nearly three years since my wife, Claire, gave birth to our son, Arlo, at home. As we looked into modern day parenting techniques, home birthing fitted perfectly into our way of thinking. […]