Author: endardoo

Blogger and newspaper sports sub-editor. Husband of one and daddy of two: a feisty and dramatic 20-year-old woman and a bright, resilient football nut of a lad aged 19 My website: endastories.com.

by endardoo Apr 16, 2018 56

Family Life

You’ve got to take the rough with the smoothie

An inner city Romeo and his blonde-haired poppet not much older than my own daughter make me ponder

by endardoo Apr 9, 2018 43

Family Life

The son rises in the west …

It’s great to be a talented young footballer but life can also be a pitch out there

by endardoo Apr 6, 2018 2

Published

Van Morrison article from December 1994

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by endardoo Apr 2, 2018 34

Family Life

We even dream up our very own monsters

You’re at loggerheads with your teenage girl. She opens up and you talk. Just enjoy it when it happens and walk away. Beaming, if only inside.

by endardoo Mar 26, 2018 28

Family Life

Am I just the Dad you predicted I would be?

The guff I come out with talking to my teenage daughter … but she doesn’t make it easy

by endardoo Mar 19, 2018 41

Family Life

Maybe the kid is (all!!??) right!

I get the dreaded call from my son’s school and my imagination goes wild

by endardoo Mar 14, 2018 4

Family Life Published

The built-in loneliness of parenting

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by endardoo Mar 12, 2018 48

Personal

Auntie Nancy finally goes down aged 104

Asked whether she preferred red or white one once, she looked at her interlocutor and calmly informed him the one she drank was actually yellow.