Category: family
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A Father’s Day.
A long time coming. I’ll preface this by saying this will make a handful of people unhappy but it has been playing on my mind for the last week or so, distracting me from work and day to day life, as Father’s Day approached. I need to post this. Content warning? I’d add emotional abuse/manipulation…
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AFK Days Two and Three
The back garden has Astro turf. I’ve mentioned it before but the past year it got bad. It is a constant effort to keep it clean/clear and this snowballs to the rest of the garden. We’ve decided to use this time to repaint with the idea that fresh paint will help until we can tackle…
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AFK Day One
Decided to start a sort of diary so I can look back on what happened over these two weeks. I’m AFK for the next two weeks. Originally it was the Easter Holidays but y’know, a pandemic happened. There is a trend now that people are doing more outdoor things and being more active, which is…
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World Book Day 2019
It’s that time again, and I couldn’tbe bothered to look out the previous posts but we’ve had Chase from Paw Patrol and Hungry Caterpillar. It took some time to make Fantastic Mr Fox realise that he didn’t have to eat everybody.
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Switching the kids rooms
Today was spent swapping the kids rooms. The Kid had the bigger room with built in wardrobes across one wall and a small desk alcove. Bamm-Bamm had a slightly smaller room but no built in storage. We flipped them. We’d been thinking about swapping for a bit, the games cupboard was getting a mess and…
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Haircut 🧒🏼
Much like his dad, Bamm-Bamm has hair that grows at a silly rate and ends up with a slight curl. We decided to get it cut after nursery since his sister was getting her hair cut in town. We went to Magic Scissors in Lochee, been here a few times now and the lads are…
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Momo and kids YouTube and what is actually happening
There is a trend going about that videos on Kids YouTube are getting spliced with that freaky Momo character telling kids to do unspeakable things. Not without realising it, but I saw this tweet from Basecamp/Rails big man, DHH: Everyone is so fixated on the Momo thing and that it is actually a hoax and…
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Teaching The Kid video editing
Every Monday, the Kid has movie club after school. They watch a small video and talk about different aspects like scripts or plot development. Considering she watches some YouTube stuff like people building SIMS and whatnot, it’s educational. She mentioned on the walk home today that she wanted to make slime (again 😫) and how…
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LEGO Police station
Here, didn’t post this amazing police station that Benj & I made on Monday! We built it ground up. He is almost accepting my explanation of brick placement to ensure walls are secure. “Dad, the colours don’t match!” Also, the backdoor at the top – “people can just walk up like this…and then…weeee fall in!”…
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