You know that plaintive cry? The one that you hear and you just know things are amiss? The one that you hear and you wonder - "Should I pretend to be asleep?" "Should I ignore that?" I heard it this weekend. "Daaaaaad!" It was not loud. It was not...

Dads are not immune from it. Perhaps we are just more reluctant to display it, or to even admit that we suffer from it. Perhaps we ignore it, as men tend to ignore so many sicknesses, seeing it as weakness. So it may not seem as apparent, but Dads...

Ah, the glory! To us pilots it something that we feel entitled to. And to those of us who are so intrepid that we venture into this unknown territory alone - the glory is magnified. Ah, the solo adventurer, the single mindedness, the solitude we...

It is often quite easy to spot, but my problem is - I am a Dad. And as all Dads, and most Mums know, Dads don't respond well to subtlety. The yukky, gooey, (and sometimes smelly) stickiness is all it takes to know that all is not well. But I guess...

I live in a boy's house. It's great! We can leave the toilet seat up, we can watch movies that are "skop, skiet en verspoeg" we can even leave the house with about 3 seconds warning; to go absolutely anywhere - sometimes to dinner, sometimes to...