June, 2016 - cushtie.com - Page 2

Month: June 2016

  • Mysteries of Singapore

    Every time I’m on the MRT on the North South line, or the East West line, or the Downtown line (as popularised by the visionary Petula Clark in the 1960s) I hear a recorded message warning me that skating is prohibited in the station. (I don’t hear it when I’m on the Circle line, which […]

  • Early to bed and early to rise

    Having gone to bed at six without bath or dinner, I expected La Serpiente to be up four hours later complaining, but she slept in silence until past midnight, when she woke and called for me in her most piteous tone. Her heart was pounding in her chest and she was panting, but I calmed […]

  • Early Birthday Party

    “It’s a machine” La Serpiente cooed, as she unwrapped her first birthday present this morning. (As she’s going to have her birthday in Canada, we thought we’d spread the gift giving out over this week – and all the way through until we get to England.) I’d wrapped up an instant camera I was given […]

  • Daddy Day

    I was woken up at seven this morning when I could have done with a lie-in, but there wasn’t much I could do about it, because it was my daughter clutching a father’s day card for me. It’s not the only father’s day card I got from her. A few weeks ago, she made this […]

  • What I learned today about toasters

    We woke today to a house devoid of food, and had to quickly head out to the bakery to find croissants to placate both the girls. There’s something wrong there but I can’t say what it could be. After that, the family split: my wife took La Serpiente to a birthday party while I went […]

  • Doctor’s orders

    They say you’re only an alcoholic if you drink more booze than your doctor does. I’m not sure if, in a similar vein, I was particularly healthy or looked particularly atrocious today, because for once my doctor didn’t try to diagnose me with something several times more serious than what I had. No mention of […]

  • Bedding down

    After some time and a few failed attempts on various Facebook groups, my wife managed to purchase a second hand bunk bed for La Serpiente. This fits into the category of discretionary purchases; there was nothing massively wrong with her current bed, but the bunk bed provides more storage, and a trundle bed underneath so […]

  • Charcoal and other fun things

    I was dreadfully ill last night, and I think after a few hours of me getting out of bed every twenty minutes, my wife determined I wasn’t malingering, and so this morning she went out and purchased some charcoal tablets to settle my stomach. My body remained rebellious for quite some time, but by about […]

  • Nothing to see here

    Utterly hors de combat today. WHereas yesterday I was ill but still functional enough to tidy the house and recycle CDs, I spent all of today either unconscious or on the toilet. Or both. It’s strange how quickly my mental capacity declined, when I couldn’t keep any food in my body for more than a […]

  • Slightly out of it

    I was woken at one this morning, and at four. The second time, I felt nauseous and had a dreadful headache, and these persisted after I’d put La Serpiente back to bed, and after I woke up, sleeping through my alarm. All day I’ve had a slight temperature and a throbbing headache, and the first […]