The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

1-Dad Gone Mad-Mine

They never mention it in childbirth classes or parenting books but I’m here to tell you it’s true: when you become a father, you can never have anything that’s exclusively your own. Any of the material and intangible “things” you used to have “all to yourself” – starting with your wife – are claimed as community property in a hostile takeover by your greedy-ass children.

2-Everything is Electric- fine dining

“The what?”
“The pommes frites?”
She looked blank.
“The chips? The fries?” She shook her head. I pointed at the menu.
“Ahhhh,” she said pointedly, “the pommy frights.”

3-Jerrychicken- How to grow your own drugs

Her family lived in the same small mining village, so small was it that everyone knew everyone else, everyone spaketh to each other, everyone was dirt poor in the pit village and proud of it so a bottle green bottle garden was somewhat burgeois and a thing to show off and if I wouldn’t plant it then she and her sister would and they’d show it off in their front window.

4-Real E Fun- Sally and Dolly

‘She was very well organised, she got a rota sorted out for friends and neighbours to come and sit with John so that she could get out to the hairdresser and the library and the shops. But that was only a couple of hours twice a week or so. It wasn’t enough.’

5-Rockpool in the Kitchen- Going Mental 2

People are more aware of these things now. They – we - weren’t then: I wasn’t. Spending hours at a time sitting on the floor, under a table, weeping: taking two hours in the morning sometimes to get dressed: all this seemed mere lack of will power, aberration.

6-Tired Dad- Breathing Difficulties part 2

There are many things They do not tell first-time parents. Because they are Bastards and want you to suffer terribly.