Trucky-Ucky-Ucky-Uck!

There must be something very calming about the final 50 metre stretch to my front door. As babies and toddlers, my children would remain stoically awake (i.e. screaming) for the entire journey – whether it be 3 minutes or 3 hours long – until those last 50 metres, when their eyelids would grow suddenly heavy [...]

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King Hair

It just so happens that we have a friend who shares the same name as Mr Justice – let us call this friend Poetic Justice (or PJ for short).
You  might think this is coincidental but in fact we knew PJ long before Mr Justice burst into our world and he actually helped us settle on [...]

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Five-Under-Six

You’d think preschool children who hung out with each other a lot would synchronise their toilet-trips in much the same manner women synchronise menstral cycles. But, no.
Just the other day, I ventured to the science museum with five children, all under the age of six. And look, before you say anything, I thought it was [...]

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