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Writing Journey part IV: taking the conversation into the real world – business card design
Business cards are always important despite having a blog, twitter, G+, facebook et al. Business card design and design in general is something that I have spent a lot of time learning about and experimenting on. I set about the business card design with a very clear objective. On the front I wanted to have […]
Working Dad – writing journey part III: Which book cover design did I choose?
I’d like to say that the last item on publishing the book was to choose between which book cover design I liked the most, but this really was no where near the last item I had to do. More accurately it could be described as the last fun item I had to do on the […]
baby’s first day at nursery – learning to let go
Letting your child go to nursery for the first time on their own is a massive leap of faith, up until this point the child may have fully been in your, your partners, your family or friends care the whole time. This is the first step you and your child have achieved to their […]
To clean the house or go to bed – Living by your own principles
Principles are great, in theory, in an ideal world we would live by our principles. Reality is different and seldom will the day progress as you planned it to. I’m finding myself going through a phase of my children going to bed at unpredictable hours and my plan to get them involved in the tidying […]
When there’s no cleaner
I was at a friend’s house recently, it was a beautiful impeccable house, as we left someone (not me before you ask) spilt something. No stress from the house about the mess. I remarked ‘looks like you better get the vacuum out’, he shrugged and said ‘the cleaner will take care of it’. This got […]
My child’s first ever sports day
Last week was my older boy’s first sports day. It was in fact the first sports day that I’ve attended since I actually took part in one. Parenting as we all know is a tough all consuming business, amongst all the hard work that goes into it are golden nuggets of sweet moments, going to […]
Working late and weekends
Much like many of you, working late or even having to work on weekends is not uncommon, in fact I’ll be working late tonight as I type this (in the morning). Before parenthood working late was not altogether a bad experience. It become a chore when you had to work late because of someone else’s […]
I’m not spending enough time with my kids
Even though I am finally back working in London I’m still not able to spend much time at all during the weekdays with my kids. Much like many of you, I’m constantly late out of the door, trying to get myself and the kids ready and off to nursery in the morning is a frantic […]
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