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<span lang="en-GB">Most of the albums at my mother's place are the sticky ones, with a sheet of plastic over each page, except the stickiness is long gone and the photos just slide out and onto my lap. I like putting them back in rows, remembering cousins and aunts, some gone already</span>
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Learner Dad: I might listen to my mother (for once) and get a photo album

Every now and again, when I’m in my mother’s place, I take out the photo albums there and look back at my own childhood in the 70s and 80s

<p>Before you head to the beach, you have to put enough stuff in the car to keep the kids occupied for a month. Picture: iStock </p>

advice

Learner Dad: Give me the mountains over a beach any day

<p>FREE TO ROAM: Pat Fitzpatrick and his family are considering a move to the countryside, which may involve raising chickens. Picture: iStock </p>

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Learner Dad: We’re thinking of moving to the country

TV Review: Violence, tension and brutal scenes in The Underground Railroad

culture

TV Review: Violence, tension and brutal scenes in The Underground Railroad

TV Review: I think Kate Winslet might be too posh to be properly grumpy in Mare of Easttown

culture

TV Review: I think Kate Winslet might be too posh to be properly grumpy in Mare of Easttown

This week's TV: Nomadland is a masterpiece that sent me to bed with a smile on my face

culture

This week's TV: Nomadland is a masterpiece that sent me to bed with a smile on my face

'Love ye loads': One Dad's letter to his kids ... on the challenges of parenting

'Love ye loads': One Dad's letter to his kids ... on the challenges of parenting

Pat Fitzpatrick writes a letter to his kids about his parenting.

Sun, 25 Aug, 2019

Learner Dad: 'It’s not unusual for someone to go home in a different pants to the one they arrived in'

Learner Dad: 'It’s not unusual for someone to go home in a different pants to the one they arrived in'

WHAT did people do before play-dates? From what I can remember, this is how it played out in our house.

Tue, 18 Jun, 2019