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Month: April 2017

  • Slow wake up

    La Serpiente struggled to wake up this morning. We all did, but I was lying face down on the bedroom floor, refusing to out my underpants on at 7:45 in the a.m.

  • Caliban’s War

    Unable to sleep between 2 and 4 this morning, I finished reading Caliban’s War, the second novel in The Expanse series. So now I’m one third of the way through.  Structurally it’s a little inferior to its predecessor. Perhaps it’s the Game of Thrones influence that made the writers think people love nothing more than […]

  • Fast And Furious 8

    Tonight we went to see Fast And Furious 8, a film franchise that seems to have attracted almost every bald-headed hardman in Hollywood. There’s Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham. No Michael Chiklis yet, but maybe all that yelling in The Shield was enough for him. It’s maddening to realise that there are now more […]

  • Alone in the dark

    I’ll often complain, but Singapore does have some beautiful weather. This afternoon I was in meeting after meeting, and just after five, as I looked out of the floor-to-ceiling window towards the west, I saw a patch of vehement orange yellow, growling up from the horizon. Above it, acres of dark grey, and then a […]

  • Easter Sunday

    La Serpiente had a 39 degree fever last night, and spent all of today zonked out on the sofa. That meant she missed out on her first Easter egg hunt; Destroyer went out and found an egg stuffed full of sugary treats, and spent the next two hours demanding more chocolate eggs from me ("egg! […]

  • Adventures in pizza and chocolate eggs

    This afternoon I went to Tanglin Mall to buy my wife a chocolate egg. For the last few years, we’ve been in Hong Kong before Easter and that’s meant we can go to Great, (a supermarket where the name refers to the magnjtude of the prices as well as the quality) so I can drop […]

  • Partied out

    This morning I awoke feeling crapulent, apparently the result of one pint of beer last night. We went downstairs to a 4th birthday party in the mezzanine area of our building, on an incredibly hot, humid day. The girls ran around playing with water pistols, or drew with chalk on the ground, or slid around in puddles of […]

  • Leviathan Wakes

    My wife and I have just finished reading Leviathan Wakes, a sci find space opera welded to a pulp boot, written by a couple of George R R Martin’s assistants. It took us each about three days to read it from beginning to end: an oddly compulsive few days of late nights.

  • The Tiger Who Came To Tea (reprise)

    Next Wednesday my wife is going out carousing, but she got the dates muddled up and thought it was tonight, so she got dressed up and legged it with me supervising the children, until she realised when she was down at the shops buying wine that she’d got things wrong. Still, I need the practice […]

  • Re:Cyclists – 200 Years On Two Wheels

    To cheer me up after my marathon, my mother mailed me a copy of Re:Cyclists, a book about the history of cycling. It’s a reasonable length (320 pages, no pictures) and I devoured it in a couple of days. Most of the time, I was laughing.