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Gareth Ellis
Dec 2, 20203 min read
Sleep Training: Worth it in the end
Sleep training is a difficult thing to do. Right now we’re doing just that with Emilia and, as with everything else, it’s giving us some...
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Gareth Ellis
Nov 2, 20202 min read
Reading to the kids, on your own
Hands up, how many parents out there, even non-parents have ever played with their/a child’s toys or eaten their food? I have to admit...
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Gareth Ellis
Oct 25, 20203 min read
I swear, I try not to swear
Oh fudge, what the flip, and shhhhh-ugar! As a parent you have to get pretty imaginative when it comes to covering your swearing and...
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Gareth Ellis
Sep 15, 20203 min read
Time Flies
Time is one of those things that we all get in equal measure. Each day we get 24 hours to do with whatever we want. That’s 1440 minutes,...
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Gareth Ellis
Aug 24, 20202 min read
Lockdown Life as a Working Dad
In the last four months I’ve been working from home, much like a number of people around the country. However, when you say working from...
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Gareth Ellis
Jul 21, 20203 min read
Not Fair to Compare
When you have children people always tell you ‘no two children are the same.’ You do your best not to compare but sometimes it’s...
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Gareth Ellis
Jul 7, 20202 min read
Procrastination Frustration
Procrastinating is a terrible thing. How many times have you gone to do something only to be distracted and end up doing something else...
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Gareth Ellis
May 31, 20202 min read
Pandemic Positives: Staying Social
So, the news hit recently that people will be able to meet up in groups of six in gardens or outside spaces as of tomorrow. This is huge...
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Gareth Ellis
May 25, 20203 min read
No, Rupert, No! Repeat
Since Emilia has arrived Rupert has been amazing. He beams when he sees her, he lays his head on her chest when he can, and he hasn’t had...
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Gareth Ellis
May 22, 20204 min read
Love where you Live
For years I have loved where I live. Anyone who knows me will know that I love Milton Keynes and I will defend it against anything anyone...
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Gareth Ellis
May 18, 20203 min read
Two Under Two: Expectation v Reality
We have officially had two children for six days now, and I have to say it’s begun with mixed results – albeit most of them positive....
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Gareth Ellis
May 13, 20204 min read
Our family is complete!
At 8.11am yesterday my life became complete as our baby made their arrival – just two days early. After a comparatively short labour,...
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Gareth Ellis
May 11, 20202 min read
Double the babies, double the love
We’re literally just a handful of days before we potentially meet our new little prince or princess, and now I’m starting to worry. But...
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Gareth Ellis
May 7, 20203 min read
No nod to the Dad Bod
I love almost everything associated with being a Dad, yet there’s one I just can’t bear to put my name to – the ‘Dad Bod.’ Everything...
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Gareth Ellis
May 4, 20202 min read
Tidy v Clean
When it comes to owning a home, you want it to be clean and tidy. When you add in a child you’ll take it just being clean. J is a...
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Gareth Ellis
Mar 28, 20203 min read
Isolation Frustration
Just recently Coronavirus has kept people (well most people) locked up in their homes to help slow, and hopefully stop, the spread of the...
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Gareth Ellis
Mar 15, 20202 min read
Step Away from the Toilet Roll – Covid 19
So the Coronavirus is here and the world has hit the panic button. Every day on the news we hear talk of countries being locked down,...
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Gareth Ellis
Feb 25, 20203 min read
Don’t just give up on Lent
Today (Tuesday) is one of my favourite days – not because of its position in the week (it’s far too close to Monday) but because it’s...
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Gareth Ellis
Feb 22, 20203 min read
Kindness Costs Nothing
Have you ever gone to post something online and then thought better of it? Maybe thought that someone wouldn’t like it or even worse that...
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Gareth Ellis
Feb 12, 20202 min read
Love is Love
So now the dust has settled it’s time to digest some of the biggest news of the last seven days – Philip Schofield has come out as gay....
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