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You’d be forgiven for thinking that my life at the moment is all play and no work, with a stream of posts on going to the fair, visiting sweet shops, building lego farms and playing Xbox. Well yes, we’re having lots of fun but I’ve also been working pretty hard too (and not dwelling on my postponed because of volcanic ash trip to Florida, sniff).
April 23rd marked the end of my business studies course with the Open University and hopefully I’ll have done enough to get my HNC. …

This is Erin and her Nana (my mum). I like simple photos like this one, I’m also thinking it would look good in black and white. I think it depicts the closeness of the grandparent/grandchild relationship.

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Guest post by BigDaddy
Inspired by the Top Gun T-shirt that I’m wearing and my obsession with all things 80?s I thought it might be cool to figure out what my favourite movies from my youth are and why I loved (and still love) them. Plus top 10?s always divide opinion and generate debate so feel free to disagree with me, throw in your own choices and tell me to ?Shut up Fool!!?
1. Top Gun

No surprises here, I have the T-Shirt for crying out loud! It was the movie …

I think you can tell from the title that this is going to be a sensitive subject, but it’s one I’ve been pondering ever since I became a parent.
Becoming a parent somehow accentuates you own mortality, one minute you’re living fast and free and the next you have a small bundle with huge responsibility, you can’t help but worry what would happen if you weren’t here. Actually my ‘living fast’ ended when I got crohns, a chronic bowel disease, and having a chronic illness along with being a parent …

The temptation when faced with the theme ’7 Deadly Sins’ is to find a photo for each of the sins, however I’m resisting the urge and focusing on Gluttony.

I took this photo in a sweet shop in St Andrews on my iPhone. I love the colours. It makes me want to buy several large bags of sweeties.

I was tagged recently for a ‘seven things you don’t know about me’ meme, I’ve been blogging for four years and I’ve done this meme a couple of times, I don’t think there are seven things you don’t know, so I have just one…

I could have ended up a carnie.
As teenagers my mum and dad both worked on a fairground, my dad on the waltzers, my mum on the hotdog stand. I love the waltzers and hot dogs, my mum often witters on reminisces about how she …

by BigDaddy

After being sent the Blu-Ray of Up by Disney I could not get it in the player fast enough. I had already seen it in the cinema in 3D so I was eager to see how Blu-ray would match up. I was also very excited because Up is my 2nd favourite Disney/Pixar movie (after Monsters Inc)
At first glance, Up is the least conventional animated movie in recent memory. The hero is not a fish, monster, toy or superhero. He is a grumpy old man named Carl Fredricksen a helium …

It seems that Alex and I have committed the cardinal sin of giving Erin a middle name that she fails to acknowledge, if you ask her what her middle name she’ll shrug, or say that she doesn’t have one. Recently she’s been telling anyone who’ll listen that her middle name is ‘Britney’ or ‘Talila’ (pronounced Tal-ee-la).
Before Erin was born there were some discussions over middle names, I wanted ‘Jecca’ and other such crazy names (hormones?), Alex wanted more traditional alternatives. In the theatre, drugged, overwhelmed and …

There were a few photos I could have picked for this week’s gallery theme – ‘Joy’, I managed to get it down to three, all of which were taken on the same day during our family holiday to Florida. Erin had such a fun day and was completely overwhelmed to meet the playhouse disney characters. At the end of our meal the lion (roary?) hadn’t been over yet and she made us wait another ten minutes just so that she could get a cuddle
I love …

Well we’re into our second week of the Easter holidays and so far so good, no tantrums, no “I’m bored”, great weather and two barbecue’s already! (Am I tempting fate? probably)
It’s the second week that’s the real challenge though, you’ve exhausted your ‘fun activities’ list and the holiday money pot is looking a little sparse. Well if that sounds like you, don’t panic British Gas have stepped up to offer free family swims to all their customers.
Figures show that an average of 80 million chocolate eggs are sold …