Some years ago now, my children were all having a bath together – and having a great time. I had just gone to get their pyjamas, when I heard an appalling scream from Daughter: “Noooooooooooo!” – so I raced back in, seeing the boys’ giggling faces and Daughter’s face scrunched up in pain. “What’s wrong?” [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Daughter’
On Not Having A Willy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daughter, Eldest Son, Family, Freud, Nephew, Niece, Penis Envy, Willy, Youngest Son on June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Marmalade Frenzy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, Daughter, Family, God Daughter, John Cusack, Madrid, Making Marmalade, Marmalade, Penelope Cruz, Richmond, Seville Oranges, Stoke Newington, Talented Art Director with Monkey Arms, Tom Hardy, Unfeasibly Attractive Girlfriend on February 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
On the weekends when I don’t have my children, and if I’m not bound for Madrid (where Unfeasibly Attractive Girlfriend) is temporarily based, I prefer to be busy (busy as in “bordering on the “Up phase of a manic-depressive” “), and so I have been looking at ways of doing something that I can devote [...]
Birthday Boy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best PA in the World, Birthday, Daughter, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Family, Fearless Leader, Old Friend at Work, Royal Albert Hall, Swearing Account Director, The Messiah, Wife on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m 39. I began the day with a fantastic pile of presents from the children (ie: from Wife), with Daughter providing a commentary to my opening of every present that was expertly timed to reveal what the content of each parcel was JUST before I opened it: “That one’s a book, Daddy.”; “That one’s chocolates…” [...]
Saints’ Tales for Children
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daughter, Eldest Son, Family, Saints' Tales for Children, St John the Baptist, St Martha, St Michael, Wife, Youngest Son on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If anyone is interested in knowing about a gap in the market (and, I dare say, a market in the gap) then stories of the Saints, told for children (ie: the cool bits, with only a glancing dose of holiness) is a real opportunity. This half term’s homework has been for each of our children [...]
What Are We Going to do About Justin Timberlake?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daughter, Justin Timberlake, MTV on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And don’t just sit there and think to yourself: “Well… nothing.” – remember Burke’s words about the triumph of evil and then re-think your Timberlake-neutral position. My argument – in simple terms – is that this can’t go on. Either we must have him stripped, covered in cow shit and put on a rotating wheel [...]
Packing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daughter, Holiday, Ickworth, Packing, Wife on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A long time ago, in our pre-family days, when both Wife and I were working in advertising, she was due to get up early (4.30 a.m. early) for a shoot in Ibiza. The trouble was, the night before, she went out with her best friend: Sarcastic Six Footer. Sarcastic Six Footer is not only Wife’s [...]
Some Mixed News
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ambition, Chiswick, Daughter, Ironing, Love, Marriage, School, Youngest Son on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1. It was recently end of term, and so the children’s classwork was all returned to us in their book bags. One of the year’s projects had been “When I grow up…” and Youngest Son had played fairly true to type with “I want to be a vet and look after sharks”. His twin sister [...]
Living Your Values
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daughter, IKEA, John Lewis, Tesco, Wife on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fear not: I am not in Catholic evangelist mode, and preparing to offer a treatise on camels, eyes of needles, birds of the field and so on – no: this is a diversion on the subject of retail brands, as related by Wife. She has used three very different stores recently: IKEA, Tesco and John [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Bridge to Terabithia", "Roman Holiday", Daughter, Wife on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There was a point, relatively early on in my courtship of Wife that we were watching “Roman Holiday”, the story of how a Princess visiting Rome (Audrey Hepburn at her most transcendent) is able to go incognito and enjoy life as it is lived by the passionate, animated and cliched folks of Rome’s lower orders, [...]
