Blogging about life as a forty-something dad to a preschooler and a toddler at www.dadwithoutamap.com
Holidays. We dream about them all year. We chat about our plans with friends, family and colleagues, sharing ideas and secretly hoping we’re making each other a bit jealous. And when they arrive there’s that anticipation of a week or two simply doing nothing. Or abseiling off bridges. […]
Twelve weeks. It doesnt sound like very long. If you took a chunk of twelve weeks from any other part of your life it probably wouldnt seem significant. Could you remember what you were doing? But the last twelve weeks have been the oddest, busiest, depressing, joyful, confusing […]
And so they come. The well wishers tripping up the garden path with beaming faces and open arms, into which you thankfully deposit the tiny baby. At this point it would be nice to run upstairs and get some kip but apprently we have to provide tea and […]
Becoming a dad is a bit like turning 18. Or leaving school. Or losing your virginity. It’s one of those things that you might have spent a lot of time thinking about, wondering what it’s going to feel like. How things will change. But you can’t actually understand […]
Welcome to parenthood. Please take a seat in the waiting room. Your baby will be with you, eventually. Clock watching. Watching and waiting. For the right moments. The right time of your life. For the right person. For the right time of the month. You develop an intimate […]
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