G’day. Welcome to This Dad Tries, a journey through fatherhood, faith and food.
- Depression sucksYou may have heard depression described as a black dog. Well I like (?) to think of it as a vacuum cleaner that trundles round after you. Vacuum cleaners are useful, they take away all the unwanted dust, but…
- Father’s dayTo all the dads out there, whatever age or stage. I know that this is a day that for many will be tinged (or even totally covered) with sadness and difficulty. But I just wanted to encourage you all,…
- What am I even doing?In my last post I talked a bit about the feeling of loneliness when my wife went away for one day, and that started a bit of a discussion about my love language. The language that I speak in…
- Simple biscuit recipeA shout out for this first recipe goes to my sons Food Tech teacher at school. He made these and sent me a text when he got home (which he never does) having made a batch at home as…
- Lonely, I’m so lonelySo my wife went away for a night for a work conference thing. And because of that, and my long days at work, we had to put the dog in with our dog sitter. So coming home from work…