Arun was in a great mood. He’d just come back from school and we were talking about his day. “Sally loves Arun,” he...
DAD BLOGS: Mrunal
I pity the fool
Last Sunday morning I was making the kids breakfast in the kitchen. I heard the pitter-patter of little feet – the...
Mr Dynamite
It has been nearly twenty years since I asked a girl to dance (been married a long time). Last Saturday I had the...
Little Miss Contrary
“She’s ever so good. No trouble at all,” Emma, my three year old daughters’ nursery nurse commented as she ruffled...
Thud
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this…” my wife Clare said as we took Meri into her room. Given that my little girl...
A Cure for Autism
We were driving in the New Forest and had just made a three-point turn on a dirt track that was supposed to be a...
Gannet
“The baby sidles up to her parents and nudges her way onto her mother’s lap. She squawks, trying to attract her...
How much???!!!
My wife, Clare had just taken my daughter Meri for her first ever proper haircut. It was her third birthday and they...
Fenton!
All four of us were walking along the path to the top of the hill. “What’s that?” asked Meri as she toddled along...