Joe Willis
Richmond reporter and Yorkshire Dales resident Joe Willis talks about football, fatherhood and other things that keep him awake at night.
Christmas Day
I am learning that living with kids - especially boys - brings many advantages. There is always someone around to play a game of Pro Evo on the PS2, hang upside down by the feet or have a kick about with in the garden.
The house always seems to be full of chocolate cake and sweets like it never was when I lived on my tod. And you never get the blame for peeing on the toilet seat when you have a seven and nine-year-old in the house.
However, one of the biggest pluses has to be Christmas. Three words sum it up for me: remote controlled helicopters. To think that when I was a kid, we had to play with bikes, balls and Lego.
The toys - which were one of the must have presents of Christmas 2007 - are small enough to sit in the palm of your hand. They can take off and hover like the real thing and they can take a hefty nosedive into the floor without breaking.
While some parents apparently had difficulty getting hold of one, a balls up by Santa meant the boys got three between them, plus a remote controlled dragon fly - which veers dramatically to the left when it leaves your hand. Christmas morning in our front room resembled the air attack on the village in Apocalypse Now.
The helicopters didn't get it all their on way however, as trying to knock them out of the sky with toy guns was found to be just as much fun as flying them into the Christmas tree.
The rest of the day was a blur of turkey, bucks fizz and endless requests to insert batteries and assemble miniature skate parks and the like. Sarah and I also got engaged. Yey.
4:54pm Wednesday 2nd January 2008
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CommentPosted by: Russell Lord, Richmond on 4:59pm Tue 8 Jan 08
Re: Sarah and I also got engaged. Yey.
All the best to you.
Re: Sarah and I also got engaged. Yey.
All the best to you.
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