Posts Tagged 'family'

Our son will be starting school in September allowing my wife to return to work; she wants to I’m not forcing her – honest. She has always wanted to train to be a nursery nurse, and through a chance conversation at our son’s pre-school she has secured a position starting immediately. To give her the Read the article…

My friend Simon Collison recently shared the wonderful eulogy he wrote about his Father who passed away earlier this year. Inspired by this I thought I’d share with you the short passage I wrote for my Nana’s funeral last year. Much of it will probably mean little to you as it was of course quite Read the article…

From The Guardian: Rising housing costs forced more than a million householders to use a credit card to pay their mortgage or rent over the past 12 months, a poll for the housing charity Shelter reveals today. It says a growing number of young people are turning to expensive sources of credit to hang on Read the article…

It’s my birthday today. I’ve had some lovely presents, but the very best present of all and the thing that absolutely made my day was seeing my little girl pass her swimming test and win her first distance badge. A very, very proud Daddy indeed.

I was very spoilt this Fathers Day and one of my many lovely presents was a copy of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band an album I’ve always loved but for some reason never bought. I grew up with Sgt Pepper’s, my Dad had an amazing French import copy on fluorescent orange vinyl – appropriately Read the article…

In case you hadn’t realised my previous post Just when I thought I was over you was an ode to the iPhone. Signals vs. Noise has a very interesting post in which they say that one of the iPhone adverts is “perfect advertising”. You know what they could be right. I was very definitely over Read the article…