Friday, 15 March 2013

Easter $500 Cash Giveaway


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Wednesday, 13 March 2013

The Fatherhood - Fiat 500L 12" Remix

I always enjoy watching viral funny video takes on parenting. The latest edition to these videos is from Fiat,The Fatherhood - Fiat 500L 12" Remix. The guy looks a little strange but never the less the lyrics made me laugh here is the video.
 



The Fatherhood - Fiat 500L 12" Remix

I'm a 90's child so I never knew the new romantics era but my parents were very active apart of the new romantics scene, so this made me warm to this video. Its linked to a video featuring a mum doing a rap from a few months back you may have seen it 'The Motherhood' feat. Fiat 500L
  
I think The Fatherhood - Fiat 500L 12" Remix is a take of a Human League song, I thought it was going to be don't you love me baby. 

I thought I'd share the video with you because I liked the light heated take on fatherhood and the little in jokes only parents would get. I'm not yet convinced by the horse that appears in the rear of the car near the end of the video. Maybe the original music video had one in I do not know but it did make me laugh.

The Fiat 500L is actually a really cool looking car I could see myself driving it, maybe they want a daddy bloggers opinion on the car? The price, although out of my reach is actually not bad £15,790.00 for a new car these days is really good. The car oozes cool and has a choice of colors which can be mixed and matched see the link below.
 

Find out more about the Fiat 500L here

If I had an inheritance or a lotto win i think i would'nt think twice about getting one it's got that mini swagger! It's not your typical big family car and for us it would have its space limitations but it does look practical. 


 

Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Going to nursery

Charlie will be starting nursery in April, and alarm bells are ringing he needs stuff to be prepared. He needs to be mentally ready, which judging by his continuous harping on about going is one tick in the box. He will also need a number of things  this is where I have been caught off guard. I had never thought much about it but he will need lots of extra things to go !

The nursery we will be sending him to requires him to have a number of things which we will have to get him.

Our list of things to get is as follows;


1 Lunch Box with  a healthy lunch to send everyday

2 Slippers

3 Rucksack to hold the slippers and lunch box

4 Spare cloths to stay at the nursery

In the UK every child gets 15 hours free a week of nursery vouchers from the age of 3.

He will be going from April and on the days of Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday between the hours of 11.45 am and 3.15pm. This is not the full 15 hours as the nursery did not have the space until September.

Then from September he will get his full 15 hours free allowance from the good ole' government this time he will be going Monday, Wednesday and Friday between the hours of 8.45am and 3.15pm (Bliss)

Charlie is really looking forward to it he can not wait, we really hope that this helps calm his behavior.

Sunday, 10 March 2013

Reader Interaction experiment.

 I want to interact with you the reader, so I want you to ask me about one or more of the pictures below. They are all recent pictures I have taken, some of the pictures you many already know about. Can you comment, but please leave your blog address so I can get back to you.

I love everyone's comments but so often people are no-reply bloggers so I can not get back to you easily.



Saturday, 9 March 2013

Saturday Bloggy Takeaway #6



 



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Friday, 8 March 2013

EasyRetweet, gain twitter traffic easily.

Twitter has to be my best source's of traffic, when I actually utilize its full potential. I have begun to use EasyRetweet , it allows me to gain twitter traffic easily and it is free. I just have to share it with all of you lovely readers. 

There are many twitter dashboards out there and I'm sure they are easier to use than EasyRetweet but they cost money.

Let me run through the main features I use as a free user,

- I can schedule my tweets
-I can set tweets to be re tweeted by other users.

These features can be very useful for the busy parent who only has between 7.00pm and bedtime to blog, tweet, like and be pintrested. It will allow you to remain connected to your twitter audience and gain twitter traffic easily 24/7. With the re-tweet element it allows you to be exposed to potentially ten's of thousands of twitter users. Lets begin talking about how EasyRetweet works, I will begin with the scheduling feature.

Its fairly self explanatory it allows you to write a tweet and then set it to go live at a chosen date and time. Above see my list of scheduled tweets and the drop down menu. The larger arrow indicates where to go to set your tweets to schedule and the smaller arrow indicates where to go so you can view your schedule. This allows you to gain twitter traffic easily and consistently throughout the day with out constantly being on your phone.

The Re tweet feature works on a point's system basically to set a tweet to be re tweeted by other users it will cost you points. You earn points by re tweeting other users tweets, so you can see this is an effective way of creating a busy hub of tweets.


You can see the arrow pointing to this figure, as you Re-tweet other users the points you earn show up here. Then you can use these points to set a price for you re tweet. You need to be sensible setting your price, for example if you set 30 points for your re-tweet but open it to only 2000+ follower users then you will probably not get any re tweets. It is something well explained with in Easy Retweet and you soon learn what is a good price and follower level to set your re-tweet at.

There is an option to pay a subscription which gives you 3000 points a month free and a number of other features. But at the moment I'm finding the free side of EasyRetweet enough for me a humble blogger.

Its is a lot to take in just sat reading this post about the way it works, as I always say the best way to learn is to get stuck in. You will find that you can get some fantastic exposure from some big twitter users with massive followings. It's a great way to gain twitter traffic easily.

Thursday, 7 March 2013

Olivia loo, Eating !

Not much has been said about Olivia recently, this is down to a number of factors. Not much in new development has happened and I have been off work with the cold from hell! Not man ful this is proper bad !!!! Alright its man ful :-p

We have brought our first boxes of baby breakfast, we have not yet tried to feed Olivia anything yet but we will in the next few days.


She is 15 weeks old (3mths and a bit) this is a tad younger than the box says, but she is the size and has the strength of a much older baby. We threw the book away years ago, we follow advice for feeding based on whats dangerous and avoid  for example dairy products etc. The way I see it if we make a judgement that Olivia is ready for baby breakfast a month before the packaging says then that's all good in my book. We started the boys on things early as they were beasts and it did them no harm. 

I do get annoyed by people, who get annoyed with parents who do not follow the book, there are so many books which suit so many people. My saying is just take the bits you like and forget the bits you do not like. Don't sweat the small stuff there is no correct path for parenthood. Sorry if I have bored you with my rant but so many people give you snares for things you do, I get defensive about the subject !

Getting back to subject, Heniz Breakfast cereal is our choice the boys loved these cereals and I'm sure Olivia will too. I will be sure to upload pictures of the results when we try Olivia on the food.

Sunday, 3 March 2013

Music Mania !

It is the funniest thing in the world to see a kid dance to music, the boys just love to stop and have a wobble and a bum shake. We have recently brought a DAB digital radio and have it on in the kitchen, a lot more music being played as a result. We could be just cooking tea for example, look around to see Charlie and Harry wiggling their bums to gangnam style. It has been one of the thing which have made us laugh recently. 

What else is happening in our day to day lives ? We are all feeling the effects of colds so we have not been doing anything to exciting. We did visit Crealy our favorite adventure play park on Saturday but that has made everyone feel even worst.

I'm keeping it very short and sweet tonight, I want to get more posts out this week I have been far to relaxed with posting.

Saturday, 2 March 2013

Saturday Bloggy Takeaway #5


 

 

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