Dad's Daily Diary: the Best Bits
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Think David Sedaris or Alan Bennett and you've got the style of this podcast: a weekly selection from my daily blog, Dad’s Daily Diary, at https://threeflats.wordpress.com
A journal recounting the absurdities of everyday life. An AI analysis likened it to the sort of thing the two authors previously mentioned might write which just shows you how much you cannot trust technology.
At its heart, it remains a private, personal account which just happens to be on the internet...
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S1E19 The Green Chequered Flag & Cage Flight - stories from this week
The Green Chequered Flag explains why I was able to provide my own hold music when renewing my breakdown cover.Cage Flight describes my battle to stop the wind wrecking my broccoli.Both are taken…
S1E18 This Week's Words: Traffic Jams and Heavy Chats & Unauthorised Shure Leave
Traffic Jams and Heavy Chats discusses the merits of a long car journey home and the opportunities it provided for a tricky conversation with my son.Unauthorised Shure Leave is the story of my…
S1E17 Weekly tales: Blame the Boys & So Long Song Contest
Blame The Boys describes me wondering why my sons seem to have their lives sorted whereas I do not.So Long Song Contest is my fond farewell to the Eurovision Song Contest and the reasons why this…
S1E16 This week's adventures in life: Some You Win & Score Wars
Some You Win explains a strange Venn diagram of cucumbers and podcast revenue.Score Wars explains why it took so long to get a piece of music to stay on a music stand.Both are taken from my daily…
S1E15 Weekly Stories: A Tale of Two Theatres & Bee-ing in Pain
A Tale of Two Theatres is a "live" account of a trip to London to watch a couple of shows and the misadventures involved in that.Bee-ing in Pain explains why my finger injury is a Russian composer's…
S1E14 Cracking Up & Feeling Wuff - the best bits from this week
Cracking Up reveals the horrific truth about what happened to my iPad screen in the middle of the night.Feeling Wuff is about what happens when I'm feeling a bit low and people notice.Both are taken…
S1E13 A Note-able Meeting & Let The Record State
A Note-able Meeting recalls me accidentally impressing a member of His Majesty's Government during a meeting.Let The Record State is about a few hours panic when a vitally important spreadsheet goes…
S1E12 Channels of Communication & Headaches and Harmony
Channels of Communication describes how I keep in touch with my boys and how one such attempt had a most unexpected outcome.Headaches and Harmony explains what musical key my car's reversing sensor…
S1E11 Digging, Ducks and Distance & Ctrl, Alt, Delete
Digging, Ducks and Distance is about why Saturday was a bit of a strange day for different reasons to do with digging, ducks and distanceCtrl, Alt, Delete is about why happens when it all gets a bit…
S1E10 Keyed Up Artwork & Cross Words and Coffee
Keyed Up Artwork explains why my middle son was so grateful for me spending over the odds on a piece of original art.Cross Words and Coffee explains why a smell in the kitchen is stopping me…
S1E9 A Boy and His Bike & Mr Stevens and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
A Boy and His Bike is about why my walk home was delayed by a very unfortunate situation.Mr Stevens and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is about what I get up to when 'Mr Stevens' has a service.Both were taken…
S1E8 Cutting Remarks & Bonkers Banking
Cutting Remarks involves me telling a Brand New Joke after a certain amount of context.Bonkers Banking explains why a two minute process took nearly an hour to complete.Both are taken from my daily…
S1E7 Wine, Woman and Song & Son Shine
Wine, Woman and Song talks about an unusual event - me being sociable.Son Shine is about how one of my boys got me through a tricky day.Both are taken from my daily blog…
S1E6 Another Day in Paradise & Couples' Therapy
Another Day in Paradise is an account of what happened in the office when Important People Turned Up.Couples' Therapy explains why my car stopped talking to me last week.Both were taken from my daily…
S1E5 The Cult of Mum & Playing Tag
The Cult of Mum describes mum's attempts to convert people to her way of doing laundry.Playing Tag is about how I tried to mess around with an algorithm on my blog.Both the above were taken from my…
S1E4 Holiday Typewriter & The Best Laid Plans...
Holiday Typewriter is about what I got up to in a hotel room before collecting my son for a visit.The Best Laid Plans follows directly and is about what went wrong...Both are taken from my daily blog…
S1E3 Brain, Brain, Go Away & Pots, Pub and Pain
Brain, Brain, Go Away is about the weird things that my brain does to me both asleep and awake.Pots, Pub and Pain is my Friday diary entry with a warning about the dangers of floss harps.Both are…
S1E2 Lies, Damn Lies & Smiling Through the Tears
Lies, Damn, Lies is a post about the stupidity of statistics.Smiling Through the Tears is all about my relationship with my son and my dad.Both are taken from my daily blog available at…
S1E1 Why I’ve Written a Daily Blog Since 2018 (and Why I’m Sharing the Best Bits)
An introduction to the podcast: the cast, the reason it exists, and the first story about the perils of using AI if you're old school like me.It really is based on a daily blog that has been running…
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Dad's Daily Diary: the Best Bits has published 19 episodes since February 2026, covering topics in Personal Journals, Relationships.
Dad's Daily Diary: the Best Bits is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 8m.
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