Living life the larger family way
According to a recent study in America the more children, the happier the marriage. Well, not strictly, as it also found that couples with no children were reported as being happy too. Researchers W Bradford Wilcox and Elizabeth Marquardt used data from the Survey of Marital Generosity to ascertain that married couples with [...]
Suddenly my own family doesn’t seem so large! Feodor Vassilyev, a Russian peasant from Shuya, Russia and his first wife whose name nobody knows had a total of 69 children between 1725 and 1765. Amazingly for the time (as if that wasn’t amazing enough) 67 of the children survived. During her life, Feodor’s wife [...]
I often wonder what things will be like in the future when we have a grandchild or two running around. An often-had conversation runs along the lines of “I wonder how many grandchildren we’ll have?”. 20 would be quite possible, I think, but how about 100? Viktor and Aneta Urich from Alberta, Canada, [...]
Earlier on this year we were approached to take part in a television series to be aired on a major UK channel. In the past when we’ve been asked, we have been hesitant to accept and have normally refused. This was one of the few projects we accepted and it turned [...]
You may have noticed that I lost the new site earlier today. It was entirely my own fault for fiddling about with stuff I know nothing about. It cost me dear, as I lost the whole site and have spent the day putting it back together piece by piece (hence why a few posts [...]
There are often days where nothing seems to get done no matter how busy you’ve been. You get up earlier to give yourself extra time to get through your to-do list, but at the end of the day your list has grown and you’ve nothing to show for the previous hours. The stress [...]
