One of the things I find most endearing about Little Miss is the complete honesty in what she says. Obviously she does lie, or more accurately she doesn’t answer a question, if you ask her why Usurper is crying she will say something like “welllll………… my shoe was a bit wobbly….” a complete non sequitor […]

Wife has been sick for the last little while and the baby Usurper has also been a bit crook (and has also been getting the odd new tooth), so to try and give them a bit of a break I spent a fair chunk of today out and about at a market and then some […]

It is official, we are off to the Big Room (not to be confused with the big house) at daycare. Little Miss has finally graduated from the little kids room to the big kids room because there is a vacancy.
It was a close run thing as the daycare people were reticent to allow her […]

I am sure that after today Wife and I will be held up to future generations as an example of bad parents. Not for anything hideous mind you, no actual physical or emotional abuse of our Little Miss or Usurper (well no more than is standard in a modern Western family anyway). It is more […]

I have a simple question based on observing some young(ish) couples on the weekend - and also to be honest Wifes’ WWM08 awards on her website, and it is this:
Why when something happens on Wifes’ watch do I get to spend the next few hours of my life convincing her that ‘every child crawls up […]