As each month goes by my Diary from a Dad look at what’s happening with our little family, through all the adventures, challenges and obstacles that come to our lives. As a family of 5, with 3 children at different ages every day, week and month can offer something different. With the month of Halloween here, half-term fun and school well underway what happened this month?… View Post

Halloween 2022

Halloween 2022

Halloween 2022! a new year of the seasonal time of the year, with my favourite time…Autumn to Christmas. this year sees the kids at school, Halloween prep, and Covid in the Halloween rearview mirror, and we aren’t away for the day! so how did we get on?… View Post

Some Favourite Things to do on the Weekend

Some Favourite Things to do on the Weekend

If weekends with your family are becoming a bit samey, you might need some new inspiration to freshen things up. It’s amazing the difference a new activity can make, even if you don’t feel like it at first. Below you can find five ideas to get you thinking about new activities with the family.   … View Post

How To Avoid Crowds And Long Queues When …

How To Avoid Crowds And Long Queues When Travelling

How To Avoid Crowds And Long Queues When Travelling, Travelling is supposed to be fun, adventurous, and relaxing. However, dealing with large tourist crowds and long lines can frustrate your travel experience. The pandemic period saw a massive drop in tourist crowds for a while, but the numbers are beginning to rise again as international travel has bounced back. A typical tourist hotspot comes with longer waiting times, price hikes due to high demand, traffic jams, and sometimes parking issues. If you hate travel crowds and long queues, here are some ways to avoid them during your next trip.… View Post

Four Steps To Getting Your Home Ready For …

Four Steps To Getting Your Home Ready For Christmas

Even though Christmas only comes around once a year, it always seems to come when you least expect it. But this could be your chance to get a head start on holiday preparations or even book yourself on christmas workshops. A recent study found that putting up Christmas decorations early can make you happier, so what else could you need? Still, decorating your house for Christmas is an artistic undertaking, and it can be hard to come up with new ideas for decorations. In this post, we’ll look at three steps you need to take to decorate your home for the holidays, as well as all the different ways you can use those steps.… View Post

Looking After Your Kids Is Essential, But So …

Looking After Your Kids Is Essential, But So Are You

Looking after your kids is easy to do as a parent, but when it comes to looking after yourself, this is when things get a little trickier. It’s common for you to push yourself to the back of your mind, but this isn’t something that is healthy. You are still important, and as such you need to take better care of yourself. In this article, we’re going to be taking a look at some of the things that you can do in order to achieve this goal, so keep reading down below if you would like to find out more.… View Post

What Career / Job would I have done?

What Career / Job would I have done?

What Career / Job would I have done? , As I’ve got older and hit my 40’s as like most people I look back on our lives about what we have done, and what we would have liked to have done, and one of those areas is Work, So what would I have like to have done if I could redo it all.… View Post

Planning A Budget Family Holiday

Planning A Budget Family Holiday

Controlling the budget depends on how much you can afford to spend on the holiday and what the family members enjoy doing. It also depends on where in the world you are as what is expensive in one country might not be in another. The preparations and investigation necessary to get the information for the vacation can be part of the anticipation of the break.… View Post

Diary From A Dad | September 2022

Diary From A Dad | September 2022

As each month goes by my Diary from a Dad look at what’s happening with our little family, through all the adventures, challenges and obstacles that come to our lives. As a family of 5, with 3 children at different ages every day, week and month can offer something different. It was September 2022, the school return, a brief time away, and the country continues to go wrong…… View Post

What are you watching this Halloween 2022?

What are you watching this Halloween 2022?

With it being October and for some the best time of the year as they love Halloween, the question on film watches minds will be, What am I’m watching this Halloween? If you’re like me I do enjoy Halloween style films, whether they be Family or Horror, but I actually tend to keep these for October, it adds to the excitement a fun of it all, it also rotates my film watch much like I do for Xmas, in which I November and December are those months.… View Post