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Who's the mystery bride ?

Quiztime: She's getting married soon. You can rearrange the letters in her name to get "Dappled Mini Top". Who is she ? #HappyFamilies

On Presidential marriages

Quiz time: Whose marriage involves the bigger age gap: President Macron or President Trump ? What's your guess ? Follow us for the answer!

Countdown to Easter #1

Easter. Chocolate mini-eggs! Chocolate big eggs! Chocolate creamy eggs! Eggy chocolate! Chocolate everywhere! Can't wait! But hang on, what are you going to be doing after you've found and guzzled all that gorgeous chocolate ? Here's an idea: Get some family card games going. We've got loads of great games to keep you busy, come and take a look! Here's a card from one of them:

 

Getting teenagers out of bed....

The task of rousing slumbering teenagers has never been easy but tends to get even trickier towards the end of term. That's fast approaching so Mums and Dads, we just want say that we feel your pain. But hey, that's how it is in Happy Families!

Here's a card from the Williams family edition of our unique Happy Families card games. (There are currently 23 other surnames available in the range).

 

Continuing the Advent theme......with the boys:

Cracking on with some more festive fun drawn from our popular Happy Families cards.

Here's the boy doing Advent. We're stealing the B from 'Boy' and calling this one: "Badvent"........

 

Welcome to "Dadvent"

Here's Dad during Advent.

It's a whole load of emotions captured in this one word:

"Dadvent"

 

Meet Madvent Mum !

Let's take a moment to meet one of the characters from our highly acclaimed Happy Families games:

It's 1st December, we're in advent and festive feelings start to swell. Tis the season of peace and joy for all men...but perhaps not "Madvent Mum"!

If you know a Mum like this.....give her a hug!

CAPTION COMPETITION

CAPTION THIS HAPPY FAMILIES IMAGE.

We say: "That terrible moment when you realize that your mother might actually have been right all along"

What do you say ?

Someone tell Santa !!

The world's best Christmas games are here to fill those stockings!

Which Olympic diver has a surname that means "pool" ?

Today we're taking a quick dip into the names of some of our awesome Olympians and we're diving in at the pool where it transpires that one of our Olympic gold medalists has a surname that actually means (wait for it....) POOL !!

If you've followed a link in from elsewhere then it's not the favourite, Tom Daley. Tom's surname has nothing to do with pools or 'daily' and everything to do with coming from the dales. As Tom actually hails from the coastal city of Plymouth, a more appropriate surname might be a classic coastal surname like Seaman or Seaton. But Daley he is.

Another gold winning diver, Daniel Goodfellow can also be excluded. His surname means pretty much what you'd think, unlike former Olympian Lord Sebastian Coe whose surname means not a good fellow but "an odd fellow".

The diving medalist whose name means "pool" is in fact Chris Mears. The name Mears derives from the word Mere meaning pool or lake. Who knows, perhaps his forbears spent their summers diving into lakes and building up fabulous genes for Chris to inherit. (!!).

Any glance at the 2016 Olympics would be incomplete without mention of the star of the show, Usain 'lightning' Bolt. The surname Bolt has no known historical connections to lightning but originates from the archaic word for dwelling or home: 'bolt' or "bolt-hole".

Finally, how about taking a quick look at our Happy Families Card Games that inspired all this nonsense in the first place ?

More soon !!