Welcome – my story so far

Posted by Paul on November 12, 2009

Hello and Welcome to CreditCrunchDad.co.uk, this is a long overdue welcome but hey better late than never!

My name is Paul and I am the self-styled Credit Crunch Dad. My story starts just over a year ago now, in early November 2008.

Mid-morning on a Saturday in early November I was nervous. Despite some mildly vague planning (getting a person and an item in the same place at the same time) and a fair amount of visualizing how things would happen, I was still nervous.

I shouldn’t have been. Right on cue, as The Proclaimers sang “I want to spend my life with you” I produced the antique ring and popped the question.

The next day we confirmed that my now fiancee was pregnant with our first child. It was quite a weekend! Read the rest of this entry »

Wordless Wednesday

Posted by Paul on November 11, 2009

Somebody isn’t well…

Work from Home issues

Posted by Paul on November 9, 2009

One of the reasons that I haven’t written much on this blog is because I always planned to have a Welcome video, where I introduce myself and tell my story.

But I have yet to get around to it. Admittedly I did decide not to on a number of occasions because I looked awful, staggeringly unshaven and tired that nobody should be subjected to seeing such a thing on the internet.

However the main reason that I haven’t done it so far is the lack of time and privacy that I need to actually do it. And this is the same for so many other parts of my work. Read the rest of this entry »