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This week my baby girl is 25 weeks old. It’s been an incredible journey which is both blessing and teaching my wife I many, many things. I think the main and most obvious thing is quite simply how much it is possible to love a…
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to write anything here at the hub of sholdstock. As my previous posts suggest, my family has grown by one and free time has more than halved. Now, a proud father of a beautiful baby girl, my…
Writing a blog is extremely therapeutic. For an introvert like myself, it helps me consolidate my thoughts into a concise chapters of what I’m going through a given time. Often a post will be a thought train that comes together eventually as a post, but…
Once Squish was born, she needed to be in the hospital with her mum for a few days. Not ideal, but necessary. During the delivery period, we had our own private suite -but once Squish had arrived, we were understandably moved to a larger ward…
Somewhere between the prolonged arrival of our baby, the long apprehensive nights and the keen enjoyment of Social Media – I found a very cool little pin on the social media streams. It’s not the first I’ve seen of these or by any means the…
Anyone who’s had a baby will know that the guidelines surrounding actual labor are vague at best. Mainly because every mum and baby are different. Without getting too graphic or giving away the fact that I know precious little about this process – rest assured…
Tomorrow marks five years since my departure from my Sainsbury’s days and into the era of my own business. For those of you who don’t know, I did an eight year stint on the Produce department at my local Sainsbury’s. In my time there, a…
It’s true what they say about nesting when you have a baby on the way. Our house has never had so much DIY and decoration attention such a concentrated time! This list of things to do is long, but we seem to be ploughing through…
Today was a wide awakening to the reality of growing up. My sister graduated university! With a good grade, by the way. I would tell you hat it was. But frankly I don’t understand a thing about university grades. Insert University rant here (I’ll put…