The Great Gift Company review
May30

The Great Gift Company review

If you’re looking for gifts for Father’s Day, you could do a lot worse than check out The Great Gift Company which stocks gifts for boys and men from all ages – from 2, through tweens and teenagers right up to Daddies and Grandads. So we were very pleased when The Great Gift Company asked us if we’d like to choose anything from their site. Now we could have chosen something for Daddy, what with Father’s...

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The Xbox
May30

The Xbox

Earlier this year, something new came into our house. It wasn’t something I wanted, but I felt I couldn’t stop it. I wish now I had. Yes, we have an Xbox in our lives. My younger son always has a lot of money at the start of the year. He has his birthday in October and struggles to spend any money before Christmas when, inevitably, he gets yet more money. Because relatives find it hard to buy presents for tween boys. So he...

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School talent show
May29

School talent show

Every year, our school holds a talent show (which, sadly, the parents don’t get to see). Each house holds heats and anyone can enter. Kids tell jokes, they sing, they dance, they do tricks with footballs. Anything goes. The kids in each house choose their representatives for the finals – one in reception/ year 1, one in year 2/3, one in year 4/5 and one in year 6. Then the 16 finalists all battle it out in front of the...

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Weston-super-Mare
May28

Weston-super-Mare

We don’t often do day trips in our family. There’s the kids’ sport which dominates our weekends for starters. The rugby season may be over, but we currently have swimming lessons, football and dance rehearsals on Saturdays. Then there’s all the work we’re still doing on our house and garden, which leaves us very little free time. And as I have always worked until now, there was never much spare time in...

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‘Can I have Facebook?’
May27

‘Can I have Facebook?’

‘Can I have Facebook?’ he says. ‘No.’ ‘But why not?’ ‘Because you’re not 13.’ ‘But everyone else has it, it’s not FAIR.’ I know it’s not fair. He’s one of the youngest in his year and most of his friends are 13. I could relax the rules and let him have it. I know there are plenty of 12 year olds who have Facebook. Not to mention 11 year olds and 9 year...

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