Scottish Blogger Dad

The story’s here, but dear God what sort of moron doesn’t check URLs and brand names in this day and age…incredible. Well done More4Mums for finding out about this. And Kudos to Gordon Macintyre Kemp for revealing it.

And before anyone asks – this isn’t about anti-gay or anti-sex (I’m very much in favour of both as long as it’s with consenting adults) – it’s a) about not having to worry about what the little one is looking at online (even though she never is at home, only at school) and b) that we have such half-wits in charge of branding at a Government level.

You’re not staying in the house just now (you and your mum are elsewhere for perfectly natural reasons) but it was a bit of a horrible insight into what divorce kids and parents must go through when I dropped you off at your Nana’s today and you were all clingy and wouldn’t let go, muttering ’stay Dadda’. Horrible feeling and certainly made me see the other side of when my folks split*

That or you were totally playing me.

Either way, when you come home, the garage has been demolished. I wonder if I can convince you that it was because you were naughty for something…

*I never saw much of your Grandad when I was growing up, but there was this one time – when I was about eight – that access had been agreed and I got into the back of his car along with his new family and promptly burst into tears. And I just remember him saying ‘it’s alright, I’ll see you when you’re ready’** which at the time I never gave much thought to, but after seeing how asshole some parents are about divorces, was quite a cool move.

**Of course, that being ready would be nearly another decade and a bunch of shenanigans inbetween involving tabloid media and so on, but that’s a tale for another day.

Trying to tidy up the desktop and I came across this pic of you and it’s a wee belter. I don’t know if it’s because I’m a fan of reportage style shots more than posed shots, but even though you can only see a bit of your face, there’s something just right about it.
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Dad’s Cab appears to be a little Ovi Store app for Nokia phones that lets you run up a taxi-style meter for your kids. Now, it’s a free app and designed more as fun than anything else, but there’s actually a few practical uses for this one…
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(putting this one to both of you as you better both read it)

One joy that we found clearing out the garage, getting ready for the extension work, so you two have decent living space, was the old Calvin and Hobbes books that I bought (some for me, some for the then girlfriend) and it was one of the things that your mum and I both agreed were going to stay – and then I found this new, rare interview with the author.

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