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Month: May 2017

  • Tastelessness

    The antibiotics my wife and I are taking have stopped us tasting anything. Smoothies made with fresh fruit taste no better than wallpaper paste. Pasta is like cardboard in our mouths. The only advantage of this state of affairs is that it’s also borked my wife’s sense of smell, so she can leave a fully […]

  • Things happen

    A lot happened today. I woke up about three a.m. in agony as my left calf cramped up: I suppose I shouldn’t have drunk gin, wine, and a whiskey-filled hot toddy before bed. Or at least not alongside a raft of cheddar and a big spoonful of cough medicine. I thrashed in agony for a […]

  • Other things happen

    I volunteered at the East Coast parkrun today, which I rode to on my bike. The journey there was annoying; as usual there’s a lot of roadies out there, who’ll happily sit on your tail but won’t take turns in the draft, and then zoom off at unpredictable moments just when you want them to […]

  • Split Images

    I’ve been reading an old Elmore Leonard crime.novel as a palate freshener between Expanse novels. Split Images was published in 1981, and, wonder of wonders, is now available electronically in the Singapore library system, despite being as far from those things as one might imagine.

  • Driven to distraction

    This morning I took La Serpiente to school; with my wife still sick and Destroyer also not 100%, I felt bad about abandoning them to the school run while I went off to my meetings. And besides, I could just get a taxi after depositing La Serpiente, and still arrive in time, right? As ever, […]

  • A bit too early to bed.

    I was meant to go out on a team-building dinner this evening, to drink the finest wines available to humanity and probably some food, but it seemed undiplomatic at best to abandon my wife when she was caring for two sick kids and wasn’t feeling that bright herself. So instead I went home, helped out […]

  • To Bedok with motorcycle

    Tonight we had a team dinner at Aloha Loyang, a complex of chalets up on the north east coast of Singapore, near Pasir Ris. There was a large barbecue that kept pumping out heat and cooked meat all evening, until about 8:30 when people got ready to leave. I was equivocating between taking a minibus […]

  • Holiday planning and other nocturnal manoeuvres

    Tonight I spent some time trying to sort out holiday plans. I booked two cars (one for driving around Portugal, the other for a week in England), one night at a hotel in Slough (I really hope John Bejteman’s friendly bombs don’t blow it up before we stay the night) and four tickets for the […]

  • Alien: Covenant

    Last night I sneaked out to watch Alien: Covenant, the nth Alien film. (Seriously, I’ve lost track how many there are now. Do you count the Alien Vs Predator films, or are they just too embarrassing? Does Prometheus count? Was there a film after Alien 3, or did I just imagine that?) This time around, […]

  • Old Man’s Sports Day – Singapore Masters Track And Field Championships 2017

    Today was the day of the annual Singapore Athletics Masters Track & Field Championships. For the last two years I’ve completed, starting off with the 1500m and running a 4x400m relay against some dastardly competition, but last year and this year I’ve concentrated on the 800m. The championships has usually been held in the autumn, […]