In part three, Tom and I were recommended for adoption by the panel and, sure enough a couple of weeks later a formal letter arrived from...

Above: Our nephews from Nordhorn in Germany who helped us with our assessment 💙 Find part one by clicking here The grand assessment...

To celebrate the launch of our brand new Daddy and Dad website, our youngest son Richard (age 7½) has written a beautiful abridged...

I started producing the Daddy & Dad blog shortly after Lyall and Rich ‘moved in’ back in 2014, after our adoption process had reached its...

National Adoption Week 2017 (October 16th-22nd) focused on adopting siblings. There are thousands of adorable little sibling groups...

This isn’t strictly a new blog post (slapped wrist) but rather an article that I put together recently for LGBT family network New Family...

Question (Beyoncé fans of a certain age raise their hand): Is it okay or not to leave the children in the car at the petrol station while...

(Warning – there is some awful bad language in this blog update, if you’re of an easily offended persuasion, skip the first bit) Here I...

It’s far too late at night for me to be awake, but here I am, in our beautifully clean and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle free kitchen (I’ve...

Heavens. (Oo I sound just like Grannie Jean. Hi Jean *waves). It’s already April 2015 and officially twelve months into our adoption...

Arriving half an hour early, we parked the car in a lay-by just around the corner from Lyall and Richard’s foster home. It was a sunny...

If you’re considering adoption, particularly adoption of school-age children, one thing to apply some serious thought to (over a huge...

This is our new family – from left to right in this marvellous illustration; Lyall, Daddy, Dad and Richard. I’m Daddy, although unlike...