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As promised, this is a continuation of last week's post . The first anyone knew that AJ had left the school was when he showed up on his grandmother's doorstep. This was a good three-quarters of an hour before she was due to go and collect him as normal, so you can imagine her surprise. The facts, as far as I know them are these: At some point during school on a Wednesday, AJ and one of...

Spoiler alert: I'm ending on a cliffhanger this month... I think this story and the one I want to tell next time are natural companions, but I want to give both the time and space they deserve. On with the show. AJ surprised me last week. It was coming up on dinner time and I was staring into the fridge trying to see if I could figure out some form of telekenesis that would have dinner make...

So my wife has PC OS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) . Caused by a hormone imbalance, it affects about 5% - 10% of women and is a leading cause of female infertility. PCOS is diagnosed by having two of the following three signs: small cysts on the ovaries, increased levels of male hormones and no regular ovulation. Well, that’s the science bit done. But what is PCOS, really ? A massive pain in the...

Today, as part of the usual, barely controlled (who am I kidding? Completely uncontrolled) chaos of weekend shopping, we had an extra errand to run. We needed a bigger car seat. Our Little Miss has until recently, been fitting just fine in the padded bucket looking thing that comes with every over-priced travel system. Now that she's hit the right weight and height markers that she can move...

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In among all the Christmas shopping of the past few weeks (or if I'm being honest, months – I do mine very gradually), I managed to slip in a few minutes in Eason's. It's become an annual tradition for me – I buy myself a couple of books, a couple of bottles of fancy beer and I tell myself that this Christmas will be the one that I finish them before I go back to work. We're...

I like food. I like it enough that one of the shelves in my kitchen has a pronounced bow to it from the weight of cookbooks. I like it enough that Mrs. M gets a panicked look in her eyes whenever I perk up during 'Great British Menu' or 'Masterchef' or God forbid a Heston Blumenthal show (which usually prompts her to preemptively forbid me from buying liquid nitrogen over the...

The great thing about fatherhood, wrote Michael Chabon (and as a Pulitzer Prize winner, I expect he knows what he's talking about), is that the bar is set so hilariously low and in my experience, it's (mostly) true. Dads get extra credit and the 'what a good father!' comments simply for being seen with kids who are somewhat healthy and happy, even if you're dragging them around...

As soon as I finish writing this week's post we all have to take a trip into town. I used to love getting into the city, and for the most part I still do. I'm a true blue Dubliner and despite my occasional protests that I'd rather be in London or Paris or Chicago or Barcelona, the sights and sounds and smells of my native city do it for me every time. I'm sure my kids think, or...

I wasn't totally paying attention to the argument going on both next to and behind me in the car the other day; I know that AJ was insisting on something, and Mrs. M was insisting that he'd have to wait. After some back and forth AJ gave an exasperated sigh. "Fine," he said in the tone of voice I was expecting to have to wait until his teens to hear. Not ten seconds later, B, the...