How tall is Gary Barlow's son?
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Happy Saturday Dads!
A reminder to dads with young kids everywhere that parenting won’t always be tough.
One day you’ll end up like this legend and all those sleepless nights, crumb-filled pockets and sticky Calpol syringes will feel like a distant memory.
Coming up this week…
🥇 Learning tip | Thank you BBC
🎾 Activity of the week | Autumn snow globes
🍽️ Recipe of the week | Creamy broccoli pasta
💻 Hack of the week | The “real” sleep test
⭐ How the stars do it | Gary Barlow and his tall son go viral
As always, if you enjoyed this week’s edition and think you might know someone else who would, please do share. We know how tough being a parent can be, and sometimes you just need a moment to laugh at some of the craziness.
Thanks for reading, and enjoy that beer when it finally comes.
Fred @
(a fellow dad of 2)
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🥇 Learning tip
This week we’re outsourcing our learning ideas to the BBC.
Thankfully, they’ve got a brilliant section on their website devoted to all sorts of activities designed to help with your kids’ learning…for all ages.
Link here.
🎾 Activity of the week
Take advantage of all the leaves clogging up your doorway and turn it into your very own piece of Autumnal magic.
Link here.
🍽️ Recipe of the week
Recipe: CREAMY BROCCOLI PASTA
🥦 3x broccoli florets
🍝 50-60g of uncooked pasta
🫛 40g frozen peas
🧀 2x large spoonfuls of cream cheese
Instructions:
Cook your broccoli and peas along with your pasta before blitzing the cooked broccoli in your food processor. Once smooth, drain your pasta and mix together with your cream cheese.
Full recipe here.
💻 Hack of the week
Not entirely sure how this is going to help you, but it might bring you joy all the same.
Link here.
⭐ How the stars do it
This week will go down in history for a number of reasons, but in some corners of social media it actually wasn’t the presidential election captivating audiences.
Unfortunately for Gary Barlow and his son, meme culture has found them.
Link here.
That’s it for this week folks.
Thanks again for reading, as always we leave you with one HILARIOUS joke to share with the family.
I told my wife I could make a car out of spaghetti.
You should have seen her face when I drove pasta.
source: @reddit
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