Category Archives: the parenting bunny

Come as a song

Last night was the joint 40th birthday of a couple of friends of ours (I was also celebrating this) and they held an awesome party in the swanky settings of the *cough* Mowbray Bowls Club. OK, it wasn’t the most glamorous of venues, but it was a wonderful evening, set off in no small part by [...]

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I Spy

This morning, before playschool, I was invited to play a game of “I Spy” by my 2-year old daughter. Of course I agreed – it would be like shooting fish in a barrel – or so I thought. “I spy my eye beginning with B,” she abbreviated. The “B” was pronounced phonetically. I spied. That was – [...]

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Better by tomorrow

After a weekend wracked by Mrs 6000′s tonsillitis and the consequent increased demands on my fathering abilities, I find myself concerningly nursing a sore throat of my own this morning. Both the kids have also been coughing and thus we’re off on another family outing to the doctor this morning. Oh joy. Sore throats are [...]

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New sound system working well

Although my new garden stereo sound system is working well, the rumours that I plan to upgrade it to a 5.1 system are completely false. On the downside, it didn’t come with instructions and I’m still looking for the MUTE button.

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ISS mess

One of the best things about being a Dad is being able to tell your offspring amazing things. Often, these things aren’t actually true and even if they are, parental licence allows for a huge degree of exaggeration. I follow @twisst14, one of the twisst.nl bots on twitter, who helpfully tell me (to the nearest [...]

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