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…To Be A Dad.
"Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a Dad." ~Author Unknown
The Family
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The Way We Were
- 2005: Oliver Steven Townley
- 2006: 1st Birthday!
- 2007: 2 years old, 88.5cm tall
- 2007: Oliver's 2nd Birthday
- 2008: Oliver's 3rd Birthday
- 2009: Oliver's 4th Birthday
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- Backwater Blues
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- 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
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- Simply inexpressible
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- BA payout over seating policy
- Brave Boy
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- New order
- Now hear this
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- As they might say on TV...
- Nothing's gonna stop us now
- From the sublime to the incomprehensible
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- Big stuff (it's still all relative)
- Grab yourself a bargain!
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- Evolution of Dad - work-life balance
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- 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)
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- ▶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
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- ▶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
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- A bike ride made for two
- La dolce vita
- Blink and you'll miss it
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- 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)
- ▶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?!
- ▶December (21)
- ▶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)
- ▶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)
- ▶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...
- ▶December (19)
- ▶2006 (227)
- ▶December (11)
- ▶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
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