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• ▼2010 (83)
  • ▼September (3)
    • A rite of passage
    • Holiday week - Saturday
    • Wordless Wednesday - Hammock? Swing!
  • ▶August (13)
    • Backwater Blues
    • First anniversary
    • A polite request
    • Operation complete
    • Wordless Wednesday - Lucy plays guitar...
    • Lucy's 3rd Birthday
    • Big stuff (it's still all relative)
    • Wordless Wednesday - Saddle up!
    • Mid-life crisis? Middle-aged men buying BIKES, not sportscars | Mail Online
    • The new bike
    • Saturday Snap
    • Saturday so far
    • Simply inexpressible
  • ▶July (8)
    • Schools admissions - a quick update
    • The end of an era
    • Last call for Hadrian's Walk
    • The law of unintended consequences
    • Wordless Wednesday - Love is...
    • That ain't workin' (that's the way to do it)
    • In the swim
    • Making a splash
  • ▶June (11)
    • BA payout over seating policy
    • Brave Boy
    • Wordless Wednesday - Bedtime Reading
    • Here we go, here we go, here we go... (etc.)
    • New order
    • Now hear this
    • Buffs - For your kids too!
    • As they might say on TV...
    • Nothing's gonna stop us now
    • From the sublime to the incomprehensible
    • Wordless Wednesday - Hair Cut (Before & After)
  • ▶May (12)
    • Big stuff (it's still all relative)
    • Grab yourself a bargain!
    • Fatherhood Friday - Fun and games
    • Evolution of Dad - work-life balance
    • Wordless Wednesday - So good to be back home again
    • Is it ever routine?
    • Most important job in the world - official
    • The Evolution of Dad
    • Long time, no see
    • Lucy - the updates
    • A Big Girl's Bed
    • Hadrians Walk (and my services to fine art)
  • ▶April (5)
    • Truly scary
    • Happy 40th Birthday Hayley
    • On bees
    • Good Friday 2010
    • Big stuff (it's all relative)
  • ▶March (12)
    • She melts me
    • Topical Tuesday: MP's expenses
    • "Summertime"
    • In Through The Out Door?
    • Saturday Snap
    • A father is for life...
    • Saturday Snap (Late edition)
    • Things are looking up
    • I am currently out of the office...
    • Topical Tuesday: Dangerous dogs
    • The Total Twos
    • Topical Tuesday: A Bridge Too Far?
  • ▶February (7)
    • Boyhood: Take 2
    • Thunderbirds are Go!
    • Good day at the office dear?
    • Reading between the imaginary lines
    • How not to get kids into sport
    • Holding out for a (Super) Hero
    • Gender disappointment
  • ▶January (12)
    • Things to do with the Kids - Ball Pits!
    • Kids activities - football training
    • Things to do with the kids: Manchester Museum
    • Things to do with the kids: Museum of Science and Industry
    • Ten Things
    • It's annual delurker day!
    • BBC News - Having a big bum, hips and thighs 'is healthy'
    • BBC News - Healthy lunchboxes a rarity, study says
    • Chilled
    • Properly Cold
    • Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
    • All is quiet on...
• ▶2009 (191)
  • ▶December (6)
    • The Firing Line
    • "We'll have a little party" she said
    • Diagnosis - dodgy tummy
    • The only way is up
    • Living by numbers
    • Happy helpers
  • ▶November (16)
    • Nuclear family is broken warns parents' group - Telegraph
    • Still utterly butterly
    • Fish 'n' Chips Friday - Chip Butties Edition
    • BBC News - School lessons to tackle domestic violence outlined
    • Like father, like son? Not necessarily!
    • BBC News - Dirt can be good for children, say scientists
    • Just sign here
    • Friday Fun
    • Techno Techno Techno Techno
    • Heaton Moor Watch ("I shouldn't be telling you this" edition)
    • Fathers losing touch
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Cyberbullies hit primary schools
    • The Joker
    • Robert Enke
    • Singletrack World : Shanaze Reade Urges Kids to Lighten Up
    • Snoring cure: £3 jab lasts a year - mirror.co.uk
  • ▶October (30)
    • A biiiiiig "W"
    • Big Kid Circus
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Steep rise in Down's pregnancies
    • BBC NEWS | Africa | Malawi: A mother's race against time
    • BBC NEWS | Health | 'Younger wife' for marital bliss
    • First cinema trip
    • Illuminated
    • The S word
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Science and literacy in the sandpit
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Open-plan school hearing problems
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Delay formal lessons 'to age six'
    • A is for Alcira
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Move to cut child diarrhoea death
    • I'm telling you Mummy, it's a hat
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Home educators' worry at register
    • And she says I'm a softie
    • That clay business: the post-script
    • Thinks that make you go Hmmmm...
    • Born to be Wild?
    • Re-united
    • Illness update
    • BBC NEWS | Americas | Jail terms for faith healing pair
    • BBC NEWS | Africa | 'I married four women to save money'
    • Squeak Piggy Squeak?
    • She's a peach
    • BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Aid group in child mortality plea
    • Oliver: the chef
    • Missing: Big Julien
    • Saturday snap
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Daily sweets 'linked to violence'
  • ▶September (19)
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Working mums' children 'less fit'
    • Daddy's two/three-wheeled taxi
    • Apple picking 2009
    • Saturday snap
    • Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
    • Me time, You Time, Without the other Two Time
    • BBC NEWS | England | Cambridgeshire | Killer mother jailed for 33 years
    • Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 2)
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Young 'should not touch animals'
    • Long-distance Dad?
    • New nursery - Day 2
    • First day at new nursery
    • First swimming lesson
    • Now and then
    • How not to catch a flight
    • Helping
    • BBC NEWS | Africa | SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'
    • Oliver's 4th Birthday
    • The Honeymoon
  • ▶August (9)
    • Blue John Cavern
    • The Wedding
    • The evening of the day
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Charity seeks end to lunchbox ham
    • Lucy's 2nd Birthday
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Science questions baffle parents
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Flu drugs 'unhelpful' in children
    • Lashings of hot buttered everything
    • Time flies...
  • ▶July (16)
    • Initiation complete
    • Sunny Saturday morning
    • Refreshing breakfast
    • A short essay on time
    • So long and thanks for all the rides
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Stressed parents up asthma risk
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Obesity 'link to same-sex parent'
    • The weather.... aaaarrrggghhhhh!!!!!
    • Morning highlights
    • Big Bird
    • Laughter
    • Snippets
    • Gardening for beginners
    • A bike ride made for two
    • La dolce vita
    • Blink and you'll miss it
  • ▶June (5)
    • Hayley's Hen Weekend
    • Mountain Mayhem 2009 (incorporating Father's Day)
    • TV: a battleground
    • Hiding!
    • My brother is my hero
  • ▶May (11)
    • Cool pool
    • Mission accomplished!
    • Echoes
    • Back to the 60s (if only)
    • Look what I ordered!
    • A day in pictures (some moving)
    • Sing me to sleep
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Fathers' depression 'harms young'
    • Getting ready for winter
    • Getting ready for summer
    • Daddy and Oliver time
  • ▶April (14)
    • BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | S | Stockport | Stockport go into administration
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Children 'not exercising enough'
    • Hayley's Birthday
    • Fish n chips (al fresco)
    • Charity begins at home
    • Mis-spent youth? Hell no!
    • You're doing what Daddy?!
    • BBC NEWS | Education | UK ranked low on youth wellbeing
    • What's in a name
    • Re-unions
    • Fun in the Sun
    • Good Friday 2009
    • 1000 posts, 1000 Reasons...
    • How to use a slide
  • ▶March (17)
    • DJ Lucy
    • Our house
    • The Dress - No image available
    • Little Hayley
    • Big boy gel
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Parents feel excluded by children
    • Mother's Day 2009
    • PLoS Medicine - Advanced Paternal Age Is Associated with Impaired Neurocognitive Outcomes during Infancy and Childhood
    • Help!
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Vegetarians 'get fewer cancers'
    • How do you like them apples?
    • Heaton Moor watch
    • BBC NEWS | England | Tyne | Head urges lie-ins for teenagers
    • BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | More held in Pc hit-and-run death
    • Daddy and Lucy time
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Stillbirth rate 'still too high'
    • Unexpected pleasures
  • ▶February (17)
    • Why I love Decathlon
    • Awwwww...
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Clean living way to beat cancer
    • BBC NEWS | Politics | Cameron's 'beautiful boy' dies
    • The wedding car
    • BBC NEWS | England | Dancing steps up pupils' fitness
    • Girls just wanna have fun
    • Heaton Moor watch
    • I can do it on my own!
    • Folk Train (February 2009)
    • They're only little once
    • Who's a silly billy?
    • I'm a pushover
    • Wedding Photographer
    • OST
    • BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Jade Goody says cancer has spread
    • A cautionary tale
  • ▶January (31)
    • BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Council fined after boy impaled
    • BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US woman gives birth to octuplets
    • Curly Girly
    • First on the plane
    • Big girl's cot
    • Historic Day
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Children's six-hour screen day
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Call for more male nursery staff
    • Busted
    • Big boy's bed
    • Three little words (17 months old today)
    • Bedtime Bop
    • BBC NEWS | England | Bradford | Mother 'watched injured girl die'
    • I've got another uke!
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Lack of sleep 'raises cold risk'
    • If you do one thing today...
    • Would it kill ya to comment?
    • Best intentions and best laid plans
    • Lucy language
    • How much fun can you have in 53 minutes
    • BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US boy takes car in school dash
    • I love Lucy
    • Teeny guitar
    • Next year's nursery?
    • Take this as a warning... (prepare to be uked)
    • Bed hopping
    • Invitations and stationary
    • Some day, all their play will be like this
    • Where do they all go?
    • Chicken Pox medication
    • Half man, half chicken pox
• ▶2008 (211)
  • ▶December (21)
    • And a pox on your house sir!
    • Plumbing update #2
    • Plumbing update
    • It never rains...
    • Nap time
    • Today's lesson is...
    • Christmas Eve
    • Insert appropriate swearing here
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Bad parents 'widen ability gap'
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Violence: Schools seek police aid
    • Water
    • Mummy's little helper
    • Tears, Tantrums and Christmas Carols
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Sleep may cut childhood obesity
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Obesity 'set before age of five'
    • Yes! (Or rather, No!)
    • Wrapped around his finger
    • It's Father Christmas!
    • Soppy Daddy
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Cold sores 'an Alzheimer's risk'
    • Oliver and Tigger
  • ▶November (14)
    • Officially a big boy
    • Lucy loves...
    • BBC - The One Show - Get Involved - First page of the stress test
    • Bumped
    • BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Game consoles to keep elderly fit
    • BBC NEWS | Health | 'Love handles' risk early death
    • Jim-jams, jabs and jibbering wrecks
    • "Down thee 'atch"
    • Big boy pants
    • Battling
    • APB
    • Dads Playgroup
    • Saying good-bye
    • Desmond James Rodgers (1933 - 2008)
  • ▶October (22)
    • Philosophical Rhino
    • Who goes there?
    • Talking to children about death
    • Sixty to nought to sixty
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Lessons on sex 'to be compulsory'
    • Firelady Lucy
    • BBC NEWS | Politics | Flexible work changes 'reviewed'
    • Tough times
    • Skating shoes
    • Video calling to the rescue
    • Scaping shoes (The start of pester power?)
    • Charity CD
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Cricket has a spin-off in class
    • Through a fog
    • Restless night
    • Even Spiderman can fall ill
    • Add your own caption
    • Booking the registrar
    • And now, some music...
    • Ouch!
    • BBC NEWS | Scotland | Free meal plan for Scots pupils
    • The weird and the wonderous
  • ▶September (30)
    • Shooting update - BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Man quizzed over shooting bailed
    • BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Damages for parents in care case
    • Chips and blocks
    • Lucy latest
    • New pyjamas?
    • Who says romance is dead
    • New hair cut
    • BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Man injured in shooting incident
    • Life in the fast lane
    • When daddy's in charge
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Parents 'need lessons about ADHD'
    • Harvest Festival
    • Day and night, up and down
    • Scary Monsters
    • Bouncebackability
    • Like clockwork
    • Lucy latest
    • Come as you are
    • BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Major blaze at chemical factory
    • First day at Nursery
    • BBC SPORT | Other sport... | Cycling | Armstrong to make shock comeback
    • Dilemma 41
    • Oliver's 3rd Birthday
    • Folk Train
    • The next Mr Kipling?
    • Headbanger!
    • New Zealand's out then
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Climbing stairs can prolong life
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Women pick men who look like dad
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Older fathers linked with bipolar
  • ▶August (16)
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Drop in 'good-rated' childminders
    • BBC NEWS | England | Essex | Spider forces family out of home
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Britain's happiest places mapped
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Map highlights 'obesity hotspots'
    • Bedtime terrors?
    • Lucy's 1st Birthday Party
    • In the blink of an eye
    • My children have been on Concorde!
    • An announcement
    • Five steps!
    • Lucy's 1st Birthday
    • I have to thank who?!
    • Dear Lucy
    • Come back to what you know
    • BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Sent home pregnant teenager dies
    • First shoes
  • ▶July (4)
    • BBC NEWS | Magazine | No time to think?
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Birth weight 'sets future health'
    • BBC NEWS | World | Europe | EU launches school fruit campaign
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Test to pick out viable embryos
  • ▶June (11)
    • Me and my shadow
    • BBC NEWS | Programmes | Working Lunch | Expenses for the self-employed
    • Snippets
    • Lucy's 10 months check
    • Father's Day
    • BBC NEWS | England | Lincolnshire | Mother guilty of leaving toddler
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Childcare 'out of reach for many'
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Many children 'brush teeth alone'
    • What happened next: the answer
    • What happened next?
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Drink campaign to target parents
  • ▶May (16)
    • Lucy's latest
    • What a difference a year makes: ask Gerry Giraffe
    • We are the champions!
    • That's my boy!
    • Getting ready for the match!
    • Big steps, Little steps
    • Back on our bikes
    • 9 months old today - She is officially crawling
    • Just gorgeous
    • My birthday
    • Stay-at-home mums becoming a thing of the past - Times Online
    • BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Sex attack on elderly dog walker
    • On the move - Little by little
    • Good morning!
    • Silent Night
    • On the move - to a room of her own
  • ▶April (21)
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Playgroups 'cut leukaemia risk'
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Pregnancy cravings 'on the rise'
    • Snippets
    • Lucy's Christening Party CD
    • BBC NEWS | Health | High calorie diet linked to boys
    • Back on the Islabike
    • Tie me kangaroo down sport
    • Dancing with Daddy, Laughing with Mummy
    • Is it or isn't it?
    • Sleeping beauty
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Fake divorce to get school places
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Fathers are 'shut out of birth'
    • BBC NEWS | England | London | TV host Speight was found hanged
    • In the wars
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Europe-wide food colour ban call
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Heart risk may be set in the womb
    • On the move
    • Back on the bike
    • Plink, plink, fizz!
    • Lucy's Christening
    • The front backward crawl
  • ▶March (18)
    • Sausage a day can increase bowel cancer risk - Telegraph
    • Saturday Breakfast
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Six baby cough medicines pulled
    • BBC NEWS | England | Toll of teenage drinking revealed
    • E-fit released of attempted abductor - News - Stockport Express
    • The flip side
    • Nessun dorma
    • Truly terrible twos
    • Little Hayley?
    • Easter round-up
    • In my life...
    • Mmmm... chips
    • If it aint broke...
    • Clapping for beginners
    • Hurrah for Humphries?
    • Weekend highlights
    • Saturday morning
    • Thank God for Lucy!
  • ▶February (14)
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Children 'damaged' by materialism
    • My little (sleeping) beauty
    • Catching up
    • The Life or Death Lottery
    • 6 months old today
    • BBC NEWS | Health | More breastfeeding support needed
    • Valentine's Dinner - Table for three...?
    • The one and only...
    • Can you tell where it is yet?
    • How lucky am I?
    • Lunchtime fun for all the family
    • My little bouncer
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Tories ponder baby nurses for all
    • We managed a night out!
  • ▶January (24)
    • BBC NEWS | England | Nottinghamshire | Mother to fight bid to take baby
    • The Joseph Salmon Trust
    • BBC NEWS | Education | 'Muddle' on rural school closures
    • Drinking contest tragedy - News - Manchester Evening News
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Charity says childcare costs soar
    • BBC NEWS | Wales | South West Wales | From 'menopause' to baby for mum
    • Dancing (or not)
    • BBC NEWS | England | Lancashire | Girl stabbed in 'frenzied' attack
    • Rolls Royce
    • On the move
    • 5 months old
    • Come out, come out, wherever you are!
    • Fire, fire...!!!!
    • Rich Tea biscuits: made for dunking.
    • Whaddya think I'm funny?
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Summer-born to start school later
    • BBC NEWS | Wales | Cancer patient loses visa battle
    • Conversation of the Day
    • Taking the strain
    • Lucy milestones
    • BBC News - " Labour 'failing working parents' "
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Pub chain limits parents' drinks
    • BBC NEWS | Education | The curse of the meddling parent
    • "Happy Holidays"? What holiday?!
• ▶2007 (279)
  • ▶December (19)
    • Christmas Round-up 2007
    • Vital statistics
    • Thank God it's Christmas
    • Mummy officially melted
    • BBC NEWS | England | Tyne | Maternal side has 'stronger bond'
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Baby units 'face staff shortages'
    • Injections
    • First sibling dispute
    • I should have known better (with a girl like you)
    • First jam session
    • No photos of your baby! - News - Manchester Evening News
    • D Flawless
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Bright poor children 'slip back'
    • Desktop
    • BBC NEWS | Magazine | Pregnant at 13, mum at 14, GCSEs at 15
    • Afghan's choice?
    • Goodbye Oz
    • Bad day, rain...
    • Good day, sunshine...
  • ▶November (25)
    • Ready-made trampolines
    • The power of laughter
    • Heaton Moor watch
    • Beyond a nightmare
    • BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Babies 'show social intelligence'
    • Bits and bobs
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Children report drinking alcohol
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Parents to get child weight data
    • Salford Museum
    • Visiting our new nephew ("no name")
    • BBC NEWS | Business | More money to help pregnant women
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Pregnancy smoking fertility link
    • Feeling helpless
    • New nursery update - improving
    • Lucy Lashes
    • Back home
    • In overnight again
    • New nursery
    • In, Out, In...
    • In hospital overnight
    • Lucy is going to hospital
    • Lucy is poorly
    • Bonfire Night
    • BBC NEWS | England | Shropshire | Mother dies after refusing blood
    • BBC NEWS | UK | How much is family life changing?
  • ▶October (13)
    • Trick or Treat!
    • Nine togs!
    • Snippets
    • Normal service will be resumed shortly
    • All's well that ends well
    • More bottom humour
    • Lucy's full name
    • We're still here!
    • Out with Daddy
    • "Tickly eyes"
    • Now and Then
    • She smiles!
    • He knows me so well
  • ▶September (35)
    • BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Russian mother has 'giant' baby
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Doctors told take young seriously
    • At the top of his voice
    • BBC NEWS | Health | New NHS guidelines on childbirth
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Allergy epidemic gets 'poor care'
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Heavy exercise miscarriage link
    • Welcome to the Terrible Twos
    • 9 pounds 11 ounces
    • The mystery of the sponge
    • Gratuitous anecdote
    • BBC NEWS | Scotland | North East/N Isles | Sheep offer clues to small babies
    • Personality Test
    • I ready...
    • 2 Dr Brown Bottles, standing on the wall...
    • Brotherly love
    • Crash!
    • Greetings
    • Total recall
    • 8 pounds 15.5 ounces
    • Confession
    • Worst night yet!
    • Oliver's 2nd Birthday
    • 2 years old, 88.5cm tall
    • Peace!
    • Bottles and Dummies
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Parents warned of additives link
    • My turn
    • BBC NEWS | Health | GPs 'snub' child asthma advice
    • "The Kids"
    • Rollercoaster
    • First morning at Nursery
    • Triple whammy
    • Snippets
    • Oh what a night
    • "Freebirthers"
  • ▶August (45)
    • Midwife visit (15 days old)
    • Big Brother, Little Sister
    • Tummies!
    • My Son is My Hero
    • Little Miss Hiccup
    • Midwife visit at 11 days old (yesterday)
    • Say cheeeeeese!
    • My lucky dips
    • Can I smell toast? Or baby poo!
    • Tightrope? Circle? Take your choice
    • Topsy turvy
    • Mummy's little girl
    • Heroes
    • Time flies
    • Famous last words
    • Catching up
    • "I think I love you..."
    • The Big Brother
    • Homecoming
    • First visitor
    • Here we go again?
    • A day old
    • Lucy Anne Townley
    • Evening Update
    • Afternoon Update - Not happy!
    • Morning Update
    • Hayley's now at the hospital
    • Farming Today
    • The things he says...
    • Counting down to induction?
    • Bacon
    • BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Tributes paid to 'Mr Manchester'
    • False start
    • BBC NEWS | England | Bradford | Mother jailed for girl's murder
    • A "Hayley Blogged" alert
    • The shape of a family
    • Hard going
    • Baby Hospital
    • Conversation
    • This is the modern world (part 2)
    • This is the modern world (part 1)
    • Lazy Sunday
    • We are still here
    • D-day is here
    • Playday
  • ▶July (39)
    • First go on the Islabike
    • Jack told Hayley a secret!
    • First bike!
    • Asleep with Julien
    • Hayley's Ofsted Report
    • Very, very, very, very hot
    • You can't beat a bit of Dolly
    • Musical names
    • No more heroes any more
    • On-time delivery please!
    • Is there an echo in here?
    • Not long now Bumper
    • Hand
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Working mums' 'child weight risk'
    • It aint half cold Mum
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Where has the UK's summer gone?
    • Under the weather
    • Oliver made tonight's dessert
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Breech birth women 'choice call'
    • Row row row your boat
    • Who ate all the pies (and cakes)?
    • Back from the Med
    • Stockport Express - Drive-by shooting
    • That's all we need!
    • Set the controls for the centre of the Med
    • Oliverland: principal export, smiles.
    • Did we raise an American?
    • How could he!
    • Final weekends
    • How could a man forget? I've got a shed!
    • "Don't you dare!"
    • Right footer
    • It never rains, only pours.
    • Bob'll Fix It!
    • Nap time
    • Moving and grooving
    • Goodbye growbags
    • 86cm (2 feet 10 inches) tall
    • It rains and it pours
  • ▶June (14)
    • Mirror mirror on the wall...
    • Let loose at The Trafford Centre
    • How could you?!
    • One more?
    • "Ice cream!!!"
    • Mealtimes - the good, the bad and the cheeky monkey
    • You speak toddler?
    • I'm still here, honest!
    • Happy at 311
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Double cot death risk 'distorted'
    • BBC NEWS | Politics | 'Right to breastfeed' law planned
    • Normal service has been resumed... hopefully
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Call to scrap tests for under-16s
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Absent parents shamed on website
  • ▶May (5)
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Support staff 'do midwife tasks'
    • New fears over E211 additive in fizzy drinks (Independent on Sunday)
    • BBC NEWS | Health | 'No alcohol in pregnancy' advised
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Pre-birth apples 'benefit babies'
    • Run
  • ▶April (16)
    • Warning on wi-fi health risk to children | Uk News | News | Telegraph
    • Old blogs don't die...
    • "Up!"
    • His latest flame?
    • BBC NEWS | England | Devon | Toddler fight family spared jail
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Postnatal mental care 'lacking'
    • Mind Your Language!
    • The week in pictures
    • Roly!!!!
    • Magic Moments
    • BBC NEWS | Magazine | Why do men live at home longer?
    • BBC NEWS | UK | One-parent families on the rise
    • The new trike
    • Eat my shoes!
    • Father Jack
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Babies rob 'two months of sleep'
  • ▶March (25)
    • Fame at last
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Semi-identical twins discovered
    • BBC NEWS | Health | NHS cuts 'hit antenatal classes'
    • Scan at 21 weeks
    • Chatter box
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Women 'left alone during labour'
    • Red Nose Day - Update
    • First real kick
    • It's Red Nose Day!
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Diabetes soars in the under fives
    • BBC NEWS | Health | No such thing as naughty anymore?
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Children ask mums to stop smoking
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Supplement 'boosts' brain power
    • New wheels
    • What a difference a year makes
    • BBC NEWS | Health | UK cancer boy's treatment hope
    • "Dadaaaaaa!"
    • "Share!"
    • It's only words
    • Papa's got a brand new bag
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Stress may 'damage child brains'
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Fat toddlers 'risk early puberty'
    • BBC NEWS | Politics | Blair unveils welfare reform plan
    • Unwelcome Sunday reading
    • Super Saturday? Too right!
  • ▶February (25)
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Schools to give places by lottery
    • BBC NEWS | England | West Yorkshire | Heart attack baby back from dead
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Mothers 'face job discrimination'
    • "Mama"
    • "Yes, please"
    • Definite flutters
    • A Day Off for Mummy!
    • We have our piano!
    • Shrove Tuesday - Pancake Day!
    • Beebies!
    • Fish 'n' Chips Night
    • Hayley posted to her blog!
    • Noisy boy, 24/7!
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Tea 'healthier' drink than water
    • Friday night is "Fish n Chips" night
    • BBC NEWS | UK | UK is accused of failing children
    • Flutters?
    • Garlic: scourge of Vampires and Fathers-to-be
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Big shake-up for maternity care
    • Weekend highlights
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Warning on 'boutique ultrasounds'
    • Team Hoyt
    • Bumper's first Stepping Hill scan
    • Oliver on tour (part 2)
    • Tonight Oliver is mostly laughing at...
  • ▶January (18)
    • Mama
    • First potty pee!
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Stress 'harms brain in the womb'
    • A lonely place
    • First scan of Bumpette
    • Oliver on tour (part 1)
    • Mr Serious
    • Morning milk with Mummy (16 months)
    • All aboard!
    • The best place to sit...
    • And to think it was once the norm
    • Like father like son?
    • BBC - Maternity cuts 'a risk to care'
    • Oliver made me a rice crispy cake
    • First midwife visit
    • Two years old today!
    • The best age?
    • We are delighted to announce...
• ▶2006 (227)
  • ▶December (11)
    • Boxing Day 2006
    • Christmas Day 2006
    • Top 3 phrases
    • Dear Bumpette
    • Back home
    • Oliver is in hospital again
    • We have landed!
    • We are finally moving!
    • Born to a smoke-free world?
    • Babysitting for the brave
    • It's all in the intonation
  • ▶November (19)
    • Play time!
    • Step back in time
    • There goes the office!
    • BBC - Woman making final embryo appeal
    • 'Super-nannies' to help parents
    • BBC - Eight-year-old held at gunpoint
    • BBC - Milk allergy in babies 'missed'
    • First hair cut
    • Morning routines
    • BBC - 'Do not revive' earliest babies
    • Name that tune
    • Remembrance Sunday (2006) - Kipling and his Son
    • First Sleepover
    • The little man walking
    • Oliver at the wheel
    • BBC - Girl, 4, 'suffering depression'
    • I love him to death but...
    • BBC - UK youths 'among worst in Europe'
    • BBC - Brain flaws 'linked to cot death'
  • ▶October (30)
    • Halloween - This is not America (unfortunately)
    • I love my lollipop!
    • Making a Pumpkin Lantern for Halloween
    • Oliver loves...
    • Music was my first love...
    • BBC - "Hewitt asks for alcohol tax rise"
    • Walking: it's the way forward
    • Twenty six pounds, nine ounces
    • It's only words
    • Older eggs pass on fertility risk
    • BBC - "Flu jabs for pregnant women call"
    • Fab Weekend
    • Troublesome teens
    • All the best toys...
    • Row row row your boat
    • "I'll have that!"
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Sleep loss in child-obesity link
    • "That's 5 small steps for the little man,...
    • A rash
    • Please step forward the real 21st Century Mums.
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Walnuts 'combat unhealthy fats'
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Pregnant women 'oily fish alert'
    • "Mummy not superhuman" shock
    • Man, we are so busted!
    • A day out with Thomas!
    • Soppy Daddy #2
    • Soppy Daddy #1
    • When Daddy is left in charge...
    • I'm all lost in the supermarket
    • Save the world or save your kids?
  • ▶September (16)
    • Sad news
    • I love ducks!
    • BBC NEWS | Health | 'Lingering pregnancy fat' danger
    • Wiltshire lass, Lancashire Dad, Yorkshire pud for the Cheshire Lad
    • Trip to Blackpool
    • Walk this way, talk this way!
    • Holiday - Sant Elmo, Mallorca 2006
    • Oliver's 1st Birthday - The Party!
    • 1st Birthday!
    • Reading matters
    • Cuddles for daddy
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Older fathers 'raise autism risk'
    • Father-son terms of endearment
    • Under offer (again)
    • Saturday morning rituals
    • Back at square one
  • ▶August (16)
    • It's international blogging day!
    • Oliver's Tea-pot
    • Nanny's Birthday
    • On the up and up
    • Thomas!
    • Morning milk with Mummy
    • The toast thief
    • You're a tease!
    • I love bread
    • Party Season
    • Baby talk, baby listen
    • Oliver in his first shoes
    • Childcare guru goes to war over website - Home - Times Online
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Heat link to children's cancers
    • Learning Partnerships - Meanwood Valley
    • The sausage rolls (forward only)
  • ▶July (30)
    • "Mummy?"
    • "United - yeah!" Part 2
    • Article: "Sorry, but my children bore me to death!" The Daily Mail
    • "I'm up. Where have you been?!"
    • Cereal offenders - Health - Times Online
    • The Gallery
    • Dad!
    • Two steps forward, one step back
    • Children 'too old for fun, too young to face future'
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Child Support Agency facing axe
    • Spotted dick is off the menu for young diners
    • BBC NEWS | Health | NHS 'lets down allergy patients'
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Call for new baby jaundice checks
    • Look what I did!
    • It ain't half hot Mum
    • "United - yeah!"
    • Roll over Beethoven
    • No entry!
    • BBC NEWS | Health | IVF 'need for father' rule may go
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Solo living 'doubles heart risk'
    • Ice-cream in the park
    • Neonatal units are in crisis, says charity Bliss
    • Nap time
    • 33 Things kids Should Do Before They're 10
    • Happiness lessons for all
    • It's official: he's crawling
    • Hayley and Oliver at Room 311
    • On the up!
    • The joys of cycling (according to the FT)
    • Breakfast al fresco
  • ▶June (13)
    • "Eight month" check (at nine and a half months)
    • Crawling (lob-sidedly)
    • Hugging
    • Mayhem (Mountain related or otherwise)
    • Splash!
    • Oliver has found his "you know what"!
    • Reading time
    • Fun in the morning
    • Bedtime cuddles
    • Daddy's boy
    • Phew, what a scorcher!
    • On the move
    • My first...
  • ▶May (21)
    • Sauce for the gander (and possibly the gosling)
    • Houses, houses everywhere
    • We're on the market!
    • Backside 1080's (and other nocturnal habits)
    • Sharing a joke
    • New improved Peekaboo!
    • Nightmares
    • Fun and Games
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Worker-mothers 'healthiest women'
    • Old dogs and new tricks
    • Crying with laughter
    • New sounds and new skills
    • Me and my big mouth!
    • On the up!
    • Scotland's greatest export
    • Happy Day!
    • Aggy!
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Children 'failed' over nutrition
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Britons 'put fun before babies'
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Spring babies 'face suicide risk'
    • Sisyphusian torment?
  • ▶April (8)
    • News from the front
    • Cat saves baby's life
    • My day (by Oliver Townley, aged 7 months)
    • My first...
    • Toast
    • The Perils of Nursery Rhymes
    • Fun with food
    • Sarah's birthday
  • ▶March (21)
    • Battling on all fronts
    • Have carrier, will travel!
    • Laurel Brown
    • A week is a long time...
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Early babies dubbed bed blockers
    • Mothering Sunday - a happy end to a mixed week
    • Teething Troubles
    • Home alone
    • Sick of being sick!
    • Water baby!
    • That rarest of things - an unbroken night's sleep!
    • Booking up my ideas?
    • Funky Dude!
    • Home from hospital
    • Oliver is in hospital
    • Six months old today
    • First time at the swimming pool!
    • Paedophilia paranoia?
    • Another day, another expert... with another view
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Life of sick baby 'intolerable'
    • These are a few of my favourite things
  • ▶February (19)
    • First time at nursery
    • BBC NEWS | Business | UK gender pay gap 'worst in EU'
    • The eyes have it!
    • Chatter chatter chatter!
    • Anti Clockwise
    • Sickness and diarrhea abound!
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Births out of wedlock 'pass 40%'
    • Russia's unwanted HIV-positive orphans
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Farmers told to plan for bird flu
    • First time at the swings
    • I TCP/IP....
    • BBC NEWS | Politics | Campaigners welcome smoking ban
    • Nocturnal chuckles
    • B and Q: it's hilarious!
    • Oliver's Christening
    • All aboard the Sleep Deprivation Roller-Coaster
    • Ready for action
    • Looking forward to the Christening
    • A crying shame
  • ▶January (23)
    • Hayley spotted a bargain
    • BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Baby found in bag in Brazil lake
    • BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Stark warning over climate change
    • Sunday rituals
    • BBC - Parenting - TV and radio - Child of Our Time
    • All wrapped up with somewhere to go
    • 17 pounds 3 ounces
    • Harder than a Rubik cube
    • First "solid" food!
    • A plea for help!
    • Shoppping can be fun
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Large rise in infant sofa deaths
    • Laughing boy
    • Support Network
    • Out of the blue... a perfect night!
    • The trouble with organised religion
    • I hate bedtimes (and so does my son)!
    • High highs but very low lows
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Early signs of meningitis found
    • Fed up!
    • Thanksgiving service for Oliver
    • He slept through!
    • Oliver (Man Utd kit)
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  • ▶December (20)
    • I'm gonna crawl
    • Natural Born Mothers
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Calls to push 'do not cut labour'
    • Love / Hate
    • Dummy in, dummy out
    • Lullabies
    • Bad horsey!
    • Our first Christmas
    • Christmas Eve
    • It has definitely started
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Call for universal heart checks
    • A perfect day (with an imperfect end)
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Colds 'may trigger child cancers'
    • "Am I cute Daddy?"
    • "What's all this illness business!"
    • Dummies 'reduce cot death risk'
    • Legends
    • 14lbs 13 ozs
    • Oliver's first Christmas Tree
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Boys get pricier Christmas gifts
  • ▶November (16)
    • If you don't like dirty nappies, look away now!
    • In my place
    • 12 pounds 11 ounces
    • Remembrance Sunday
    • Oliver's Great Grandmother's 95th Birthday
    • Let's get your wind up, Dad!
    • Chicken in a Basket
    • Baby Massage
    • A special outfit
    • Mirror, mirror...
    • "Who's a bonnie dribbler!"
    • Isabella's Christening
    • Paternity Leave - Week 2
    • BBC NEWS | England | Beds/Bucks/Herts | Mother who killed son avoids jail
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Parents 'fear asking for support'
    • 11 pounds 13 ounces
  • ▶October (15)
    • Out on the town
    • He smiled!
    • Hold your head up
    • Back to the Table
    • Toys really are Us
    • Life and death, near and far
    • All aboard the sleep deprivation roller coaster
    • One month old today!
    • Things that go grump in the night
    • Comedian Ronnie Barker dies
    • Little Buddha
    • Grouchy again
    • BBC NEWS | UK | Mother's care 'best' for children
    • Four Generations
    • Babies for Dummies, Dummies for Babies
  • ▶September (32)
    • BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic ice 'disappearing quickly'
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Junk food to be banned in schools
    • Names
    • Back to work
    • Sleeping on the job
    • Wayne, Sharon, Emma and Shannon visit
    • This is the toughest job in the world!
    • Oliver - chilled
    • The eyes have it
    • All day, and all of the night
    • Made with 100% Love
    • Homecoming
    • Homecoming hat
    • Leaving hospital
    • When is a policy not the policy?
    • Handsome Devil
    • I changed a dirty nappy!
    • On the ward / First visitors
    • Feeding Time
    • Awakening
    • I can see why it's called labour
    • Oliver Steven Townley
    • Moving up a gear
    • Waters broken
    • Still slow going
    • We have lift off!
    • D-day is re-scheduled
    • Labor Day
    • Hayley at Heatons Tandoori
    • Beyond limbo
    • ...and now we're back (from the hospital).
    • We're off to the hospital...
  • ▶August (31)
    • Guardian | Being youngest in class is risk to mental health
    • BBC NEWS | England | Beds/Bucks/Herts | 'Special' baby grew outside womb
    • BBC NEWS | England | Tyne | Killers 'knew of crying baby boy'
    • The girl who cried wolf?
    • Vindaloo
    • Come out, come out, whoever you are!
    • Neighbours
    • Sing along now
    • D-Day looming
    • What's that in the background
    • Twinges
    • He's having a baby (apparently)
    • Time-saving techniques for new fathers
    • Braxton Hicks
    • Super Nannies
    • Fright
    • Tip of the day
    • Chilling
    • All I need is the air that I breathe...
    • The Twilight Zone
    • The Mamas and Papas Tens
    • BBC NEWS | Health | One in 25 fathers 'not the daddy'
    • Yoga matters
    • Nursery photos
    • Finishing touches
    • Heart rate measurement
    • Roller-coaster day
    • Old wives' tales (part 2)
    • BBC NEWS | Scotland | Childbirth down after Caesareans
    • Volunteer Ranger!
    • ...zzzzZZZZZ!
  • ▶July (23)
    • We're running out of weekends
    • Mums pregnant with boys may be less forgetful
    • I remember you
    • Ultrasound scan at 36 weeks
    • Upside down
    • Turn baby turn
    • Once more into the...
    • Place your bets
    • Ante-natal class #4: The Health Visitor
    • Good Book
    • Fears
    • Hayley and bump
    • Ante-natal class #3: breast-feeding
    • Furniture saga (Act 4... or is it 400)
    • Ante-natal class #2: tour of the delivery suite
    • London Bombs
    • Top of the Pops
    • So we're all set then!
    • London 2012
    • Ante-natal class #1: If all goes well...
    • Latest dream
    • I'm not superstitious, but...
    • Party time!
  • ▶June (12)
    • "Heatwave!"
    • The new bed
    • Hayley test driving beds
    • "Sweet dreams are made of this..."
    • Where's my screwdriver gone...
    • Simple pleasures
    • Toddler tearways targeted - Sunday Times - Times Online
    • BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | India's five-year-old policeman
    • BBC NEWS | Education | Warning over 'bullying by mobile'
    • Nursery with new carpet
    • The Godfather
    • Furniture Farce: Act III
  • ▶May (12)
    • Route 66
    • Like buses
    • Furniture fiasco
    • At last!
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Fertility success gulf revealed
    • Roll up for a roll end
    • Happy birthday to me
    • NHS 0 NCT 0
    • Mellow Yellow
    • First visible kick
    • Three in a bed gymnastics
    • Isn't bathtime fun!
  • ▶April (16)
    • Asthma in pregnancy
    • "Best age to have first child is 34"
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Day care prevents child cancers
    • New Papa
    • BBC NEWS | Health | Working mums provide better diets
    • "Another Saturday night and I ain't got no Boddies..."
    • T-Shirts from Think Geek
    • Nursery Furniture
    • "How are you feeling, It's a beautiful morning"
    • The Kick Inside
    • The second half kicks off
    • Second scan (20 weeks)
    • Look (s)he's waving!
    • Another day, another day-care
    • Lullaby
    • Ch ch ch ch changes
  • ▶March (16)
    • Statistics
    • Baby Mozart
    • Easter and Hayley's Party Trick
    • Urban Detour Xtreme buggy
    • Sunday Lunch
    • This weekend's co-incidences
    • Old wives' tales
    • Tough day at the office
    • New beats, Nu Nus and Nannies
    • Top T-Shirt!
    • Lurkers
    • How to be nice
    • Great day
    • Super Size Me!
    • You've bought us what?!
    • Sentencing delayed
  • ▶February (8)
    • The secret of comedy is...
    • Reponses
    • Apparently I smell... again!
    • Scantastic day!
    • Ultrasound image at 13 weeks
    • Charades
    • Baby talk
    • Quiet time
  • ▶January (13)
    • A plan (or two) is hatched.
    • We've something to tell you...
    • Oh come on, that doesn't really happen... does it?
    • Meet the midwife.
    • "Come here...(sniff sniff sniff)"
    • In a bad way... and that's just my wardrobe.
    • A right pain (in the left leg)
    • And now the weather
    • Cravings!
    • ZZZZzzzzzz...
    • They know you know
    • Nah, it can't be. Can it?
    • ...at 40