Year: 2012

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TWO MINUTE NOODLES

Some things never change. Bear and Monkey are still on the Two Minute Noodle Diet. Except the noodles take four minutes to cook. Courtesy of

STUPID ARGUMENTS WITH KIDS

This is another column I’m going to have to follow up. Maybe it should be called “Why it’s stupid to argue with teenagers”. Courtesy of

MY JOB AS A GAME TESTER

These days I have to listen to music. Bear’s music is “interesting”. Courtesy of the Sound Telegraph/Telegraph Newspapers. This was written under my former name.

PERKS OF THE JOB

I wrote a column the other day about “trying new things”. I did have the chance to try quite a few things while I was

ROUGH AND TUMBLE

This is the first column that mentions one of Blue Eye’s children – his youngest. I now call her Miss Attitude, but back then, she

LOVE LETTERS

Just the other day Blue Eyes and I were looking through our love letters…that’s another story. I miss love letters from Bear and Monkey. More

BEFORE I HAD TEENAGERS

I wrote this when my brother and sister came to stay in 2007…before Bear and Monkey were teenagers. Boy, was I naive: “I can’t help

ON BEING BORN SMART

Reading this makes me realise how much Monkey and Bear have changed – they certainly don’t try as hard in school these days. In fact,

ON CHOOSING NOT TO WEAR SENSIBLE SHOES

Some of you may recall that I was until 2011 a newspaper journalist/news editor for a suburban newspaper. One of my favourite parts of the

A BOOK AND ITS COVER

Do you judge a book by it’s cover? It’s one of those questions where the politically correct answer, is “Of course not, I judge it

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