Welcome to my world

My wife tends to keep a pretty low profile online, and has always shown remarkable resistance to my social media evangelism. But as of last night she’s broken cover and written her first ever blog post for the BBC, where she has a regular writing gig for daytime drama Doctors. It’s a great post, too. [...]


Weekend project: A gang of pot heads…

…has started hanging out around in my back garden, much to the delight of my toddler son. You will need: Enamel paints, clean plastic pots, compost and small things that grow. Tree stumps optional. Inspiration for this one came from The Dad Manual (an ace book which I’m slightly ashamed to confess I bought for [...]


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Found Nemo

My son found him today in the aquarium at the Horniman and he hasn’t even seen the film.


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Geek is good!

My big sister didn’t know I had a blog. She does now: Swiftly followed by: And look, she’s using Tweetdeck! Go sis! (And hello, if you’re reading this).


I’m living in a box

I’m living in a cardboard box. This is just some of the evidence of a weekend well spent. I also managed to plan my veg garden for 2009, more about which later this week.


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Three important links

I imagine one or two other things may have been published on the interpipes recently but none more important than these: Miniaturists: more reports form the fringe – The West End Whingers review my wife’s short play and single her out for a special mention: Thankfully the Whingers enjoyed practically all of it but special [...]


Happy birthday Dylan!

Yesterday was my son Dylan’s first birthday. He had a fun birthday weekend including this trip to Norbury Park swings and visits from all his grandparents. If you like, you can see more pictures of Dylan on my Flickr and Facebook albums. Daddy has also bought a Flip camera, full of regrets that there’s no [...]


It’s my birthday

I am 32 today. I note with horror that I share my birthday with Guy Ritchie, he of god-awful films about made up London gangsters.