Relaxed Parents

Time to move on

(un)relaxeddad — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:00:53 +0000

The fact is, I’m not unrelaxeddad any more. Identities evolve, people change, things reach an end and little elf has just driven a pram into my feet. I’ll be leaving this up and will be letting regulars know where the new location is once I’ve sorted it out. But it’s time to move on. Posted in blogging [...]

Little elves

(un)relaxeddad — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:50:55 +0000

The last two weekends have been a little difficult, basically in relation to sleeping and child-friendly accommodation (THE MICROWAVE DIDN’T WORK). Still, there were moments, like dudelet gently leading dudelette in a round of ring-a-ring-of-roses in, of all places, the transept of Winchester’s medieval cathedral. Given the grim origins of that particular rhyme, it had a [...]

Here’s something red

(un)relaxeddad — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:24:42 +0000

Back in a action in a few days – will come visit. Posted in toddler

This post goes on and on and really I shouldn’t moan

(un)relaxeddad — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:32:26 +0000

Openpalm asked a some questions which I’ve often thought about: about photography– i am so glad to see black and white… and “the moment” captured in the photos i see today on your sidebar. I used to take a lot of photographs, less and less as work and child have changed my schedule (who gets up [...]

Dialogues with dudelet

(un)relaxeddad — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:22:09 +0000

“Is Queen Victoria still alive?” “No, she died a long time ago.” “Why do we die?” “Well, it’s part of nature to die when you get very old.” “Is that the only way people die?” “No, sometimes, there are accidents…” “Why do people have to die apart from getting old?” ============== (Dudelet at Kennsington Palace, audio guide stuck firmly to his ear. “Go back [...]

There are an awful lot of babies out there with no immune systems

(un)relaxeddad — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:50:34 +0000

Viz don’t touch the baby without washing your hands. Posted in toddler Tagged: link

I do not believe in an interventionist God

(un)relaxeddad — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:51:56 +0000

The comment I added to this picture on Flickr runs: “It is, of course, the Thames. Strangely, of a walk mostly devoted to taking pictures of a bridge, the only one I like so far has the bridge missing. I’ve noticed a definite rhythm. I’ll kind of withdraw from Flickr then over a day or [...]

Knickers and telling off

(un)relaxeddad — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:04:36 +0000

Two more things. Dudelette is fascinated by supermum’s smalls. She’ll march around with them draped over her shoulders like a shawl, wear them on her head as a hat, pull them around her neck and accessorise with a cowboy hat (wish I’d got a photo of that one) so they look like a kerchief, attempt to [...]

Keys and other quick developmental notes

(un)relaxeddad — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:15:14 +0000

A five minute post. This isn’t going to be riveting unless you’re me in about five years. Dudelete is now one and a quarter. Her fascination with keys continues. She’s currently trotting around the house with a bunch of keys ‘locking’ every day she comes to. She still doesn’t have more than four or five discernable [...]

Gerhard Richter and dudelette and the National Portrait Gallery.

(un)relaxeddad — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:03:42 +0000

Dudelette and I went to see the new Gerhard Richter – Portraits retrospective at the National Portait Gallery. (Note to Londonders or visitors – if you’re with a pram, exit Charing Cross via the escalator up to the mainline station. Or there’s an awful lot of steps to negotiate. On the way back? Well, there [...]