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My top 5 childhood crushes

In May I reminisced about my childhood heroes… today you get to read about my top five childhood crushes (lucky you). 5. The Abba girls I confess my very first childhood crush was on Agnetha and Anni-frid. My siblings were all teenagers when Abba-mania came to the Drake household (late 70s). I was four years [...]

Do you believe in Emily?

Seeing isn’t believing anymore. The future is now and the future is scary. By the way… Emily is not real. She is a computer generated image. Read more here.

O Praise Him

I had a great day today, until I heard some sad news about someone. Bad news is like a wet blanket… it cannot be easily shaken. It leaves you feeling really down (understatement of the year). Paisley Jade (wife) was on the bed browsing facebook (as she does). I snuggled up next to her (as [...]

Mr. Mum

I take my hat off to every stay-at-home mother out there. You girls are legends! Paisley Jade (that’s my wife) has been in bed with a very bad flu for the last few days, so I’ve taken a few sick days to cover for her. We have four kids, who need fequent feeding, washing, and [...]

Lysdexic?

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn [...]

My favourite places

I was thinking the other day about the places I like to be the most. Of course, anywhere with my wife and my kids would be a favourite place. I’m loving my nice warm bed and the fireplace during these cold winter evenings, daydreaming in the shower comes to mind also… but as far as [...]

I was a Caffeine Addict

Okay, confession time. Ten days ago I was addicted to caffeine. I was having about 5-6 plunger coffees daily and also energy drinks before church services. As you will know if you’ve been reading my posts, I got the flu big time recently and for a day couldn’t even keep liquids down. That was the [...]

Indy Jones: Larger than life

When ‘Crystal Skull’ came out, I asked the cinema manager if I could buy the huge movie poster. He said come back in a couple of months time, which I did… and to cut a long story short, a few nights ago, at midnight, I secretly nailed it up in my boys’ bedroom (it’s amazing [...]

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