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Catch the Breeze
Oct 4th
This is my favourite photograph I've taken for quite a while. It's a pretty simple affair, my daughter Kitty catching the breeze on the jetty at West Bay in Dorset.
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- Welcome to GrumpyDaddy. Here you'll find the trials and tribulations of me - Harry. During the time writing this blog I've been a single bloke, married, father of newborn twins and widower, husband and father again. A professional writer by trade, this is the place where I exorcise (and exercise) all my personal nonsense, most often (but not limited to) my experiences as a husband and father of three children. Note - not all the grumpyness is genuine.
Random Ramblings
- Hot in the CityI've just got back from a quick trip into London. Blimey it was hot and muggy there. It's so humid at the moment it almost feels like you have to swim through the air rather than walk through it. I was at the Honorable Artillery Company, a rather int…
- Votes for ChildrenParents, I imagine that unless you're loaded you aren't exactly keen on the Coalition's efforts so far. The massive real-world cuts in public spending - particularly on education and children's services - certainly worry our family. Surestart has been c…
- Nuke the Site from Orbit...I found it very difficult to get to sleep last night. That's because of our neighbour upstairs running around for ages. His footfalls a constant tap tap tap against my late night sanity. Why should it bother me so much? Because we live in a terrac…
- A Tale of a ToothI've been struggling recently. For the last few weeks I've been having increasingly bad toothache. It started when I was away with L in Skegness. I had a sleepless night due to ache, but it wasn't too bad. Over the next few weeks I had some pain and oth…
- Don't Make Me Think These ThingsDammit he got me annoyed. Who? The useless twonk that works in my local Burger King, that's who. Jo and I were heading out to collect my wedding suit but I hadn't had breakfast yet, so I decided to pop in and get a bacon sandwich and my beloved aske…
- Hot in the City
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