With Iu and Loki back from Romania, we decided to do an outing together, particularly as the rain prevented the hordes from descending for Saturday tennis at ours. This is how it played out... Not that there's anything wrong with wanting to marry your best friend, even if he's the same sex. Honest.

It's very rare that Iu and Loki and I are apart of a weekend. But recently, Iu and Loki went for a flying visit (a couple of nights) to Romania to visit rellies, leaving me to hold the fort, mid-diet on my own back in London. This proved to be problematic for me... I don't manage well left to my own devices.

Every Saturday we have Loki's friends and their family round to play tennis in the courts inside our compound. The kids stay on afterwards and trash the joint, while the parents eat us out of house and home and shoot the breeze. People often complain that digital media stored in Data Centres is basically slop and all we are doing is destroying the environment for vanity trash that should be deleted. But the same could be said for the hot air that comes out of our mouths too.

As Loki settles into being 5, the number of concert performances we have to goto is increasing with his higher level of stamina. Unfortunately, this seems to be in an inverse ratio to ours... Only another 13 years to go of this.

Our 4 yo son Loki is now in Reception and yesterday he had his first school football tournament. Big event - notable for being a rare occasion where I didn't bring my semi-professional camera to take snaps. I always look a bit of a weirdo amongst the parents with their iphones next to me with my enormous telephoto lens like I'm trying to compensate for some biological inadequacy. But if I don't take the snaps, then the parents get disappointed that they don't have the cool cl

When your daughter shows distress about the state of her relationship, it is very tempting as a father to step in and take action. But the truth is, I'm too fat, have weak wrists, and basically prefer sitting in the living room to any form of activity, so operate under a quite tight constraints when it comes to doing anything to help. Nevertheless, there are things you can do. Impactful things...

7 weeks down and now there's nothing to watch on Saturday afternoons anymore.

Been doing a few obscure cartoons lately that basically capture a random thought drifting through my head, usually on the way to the tube...

Whether you call it Christmas, the winter break, or happy holidays, the time off from work presents the opportunity to have a think about...

If there's one glimmer of hope to pull the economy out of the cost of living crisis, it's children's birthday parties. The amount of...

I've just realised that sounds way worse that I meant it to. I don't mean 'adult things' like stripshows or brothels and such like....

That's the expression we used in our family whenever I'd get into a disagreement with my dad. I guess it means that there's only room for...

Particularly if you have kids. I look at Loki with his beautiful toddler innocence and enthusiasm for everything and wonder to myself...

It was the same with Loki's older brother Finn when he was a late toddler in the early noughties. Always questioning stuff and wanting to...

Our neighbours suddenly started being nice to us. Inviting us over, giving us gifts, and generally being very communicative. Despite the...

No amount of paternal love generated by those beautiful 2 and half year old innocent blue eyes staring longingly into mine can hide the...

When you've got a lot wrong with you, it seems to be an invitation for a lot of other things to hop along for the ride. Some of them are...

I sit firmly on the side of those who argue that people should have the right to choose the time of their own death. I guess where I...

It's been an amusing day for me today triggered by when people ask me 'how are you?' I can genuinely respond, 'Oh I'm fine, and pissing...

In the 20 years I lived in Australia as a lad, surrounded by deadly snakes and spiders, at no stage did I experience such horror as...