This year I decided to take on a personal no buying challenge. I wanted to see if I could buy nothing for an entire year. So far so good I have not bought anything for myself, I did, however, have to buy some stuff for our newly acquired puppy – more on that later. So …
So as I said in my last post there has been great excitement in our household since been given the actual date of picking up our foster guide dog puppy. The count down to 10th January 2019 has begun and Christmas has taken second place this year as the number of sleeps are being counted until …
It all started while I was Christmas shopping recently in our local Westfield and looked around at the number of shopping bags that people had… seemed crazy people buying Christmas for people that will never use those gifts. Seemingly a huge percentage of Christmas gifts are returned each year or never used. Its not …
That’s all we have been hearing for the past 18 months… When we moved to Australia back in 2010 we promised the kids that we would get them a dog to help them settle in. So shortly after we moved here we got them a Maltese Terrier puppy which we called Bailey as he was …
One of the issues of being a half-blind DIY Dad is that I am a bit like the Karate kid when doing some of my DIY chores “Glasses on – Glasses off, Glasses on – Glasses off” They are on when I am doing the big stuff outdoors, but off when I need to do …
Oh the joy of being the parent of a teenage daughter and rising to the challenge of helping to organise a 15 year old birthday party. D1 decided to have a birthday party at home this year and couldn’t decide on a theme, it went from a disco to fancy dress to an outdoor movie. …
One of the joys of living in an old house is some of the problems that you encounter. One of which is rising damp. Since getting the house renovated nearly three years ago we did not touch what has become known as the “old part of the house” – which comprises the two front bedrooms. …
Oh my how times have changed as the years have moved on. It’s not really until the big annual events like Christmas and birthdays that you realise that your kids are no longer little kids anymore. This is more noticeable at Christmas time as it becomes more difficult to find out what our two daughters …
For those of you that want to know where the name of the blog 8 Hour Week came from, well I’m a big fan of Tim Ferris and his 4 Hour Work Week. Having read his book a couple of times I have to admit that I’m no closer to working a 4 hour week …
A Facebook photo doesn’t capture the joy in a kids voice of opening their presents on Christmas morning…