The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 39

HAPPY PADDY’S DAY to all! It’s been all go this week with the Grandparents over again, meaning Jamie and Lily have been enjoying the usual spoiling and days out. James and I managed to reacquaint ...

Review: The Aftermath

BASED ON Rhidian Brook’s book of the same name, The Aftermath drops its audience into the ruined city of Hamburg five months after the end of the second world war. Amid the shattered lives, destroyed ...

The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 38

ALL UPS and no downs this week thankfully. Although a few tears. No, not Jamie or Lily – me! I got a phone call from the local nursery to say they are holding the enrolment evening next ...

Review: Captain Marvel

EVER SINCE her insignia appeared in the post-credits scene of Avengers: Infinity War  the arrival of Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, has been eagerly anticipated by fans of the hottest genre in modern cinema – ...

The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 37

AH, THE FIRST uneventful week in, err, well forever! The kids have been great this week. They’ve both slept all night, every night. Jamie has been spending more time playing with Lily. No issues with ...

Artists who seek to control ticket sales are agents of the Bully State

MY TICKETS to see Gladys Knight at London’s Albert Hall in June arrived today. I was fortunate to see her in Dallas last year and my wife and I enjoyed it so much she bought ...

The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 36

POOR GRANNY is away home for a rest! Jamie was up at 5.00am pretty much every morning for the last fortnight and I think my Mum was about to go mad if she had to ...

Review: The Lego Movie 2

WHEN THE EDITOR of ThinkScotland asked me to review The Lego Movie 2, he added that we are fortunate enough to attract a readership that includes a fair number of parents. The point of this aside was ...

The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 35

WHAT’S WORSE than toilet training a toddler and taking care of an eight-month-old baby with a cold?

Having a husband with a sore back, that’s what. 

It all started ...

This is not striking, this is political grooming by the Greens

THEY'RE AT IT AGAIN. There is something about the left that means they cannot resist trying to interfere with other people's children. Especially those adults who have none of their own. 

Conditioning a ...

Review: Boy Erased

FEBRUARY IS LGBT HISTORY MONTH and so the release of Boy Erased could hardly have been timelier. As the focus of much of the popular conversation turns to the historic achievements and struggles of the LGBT community, ...

The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 34

GRANNY ON BOARD! Thankfully, Mum arrived this week to spend some quality time with the kids. Ha! Little did she know that I had been waiting on her staying so I had help with the ...