So as is traditional on the last day of the year, I look back at the first day of the year and check how I did on my resolutions.. In 2013, I enjoyed about a[…]
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Month: December 2014
Cleaning up Cecile
On Christmas Day, one of our visitors mentioned what an interesting shade of lavender our octopus, Cecile, was. That was when I realized she really was too dirty. We bought Cecile just over a year[…]
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Cold in Singapore
It rained again this morning, and although the temperature is in the mid-twenties, it felt cold. So cold, in fact, that I wore a corduroy suit to work today, and didn’t faint from heat exhaustion[…]
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Things I learned at the end of the year
Last night I stayed up way too late, reading Madame Bovary. The Christmas period is a good time for rest and reflection, catching up on sleep and getting organized. Not for depriving yourself of sleep[…]
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A big bang
I finally admitted to myself that if I haven’t ridden my mountain bike off road in the last two years, I’m probably not going to do so in 2015 either. So today I bought a[…]
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Damp Boxing Day
I woke up at six thirty to a downpour. I turned off my alarm and went back to sleep, gloomy at the thought of missing a run this morning, but looking forward to a rainfree[…]
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Christmas 2014
We failed to continue several traditions this year. We didn’t get out for an early morning walk in the park (although we did go for a walk near our flat, and saw some chickens). Our[…]
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Preliminary overindulgence
Tonight I ate an entire bag of Kettle Chips. I blame my wife for this, because she bought two huge bags of the upmarket crisps home today, and she knew I had willpower deficiencies. I[…]
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Marathon preparations
This evening my wife went out and left me in charge of the baby, which wasn’t as onerous as it might sound, because La Serpiente Aquatica Negra went to sleep at 7:30 and there hasn’t[…]
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Recovery mode
I’d overdid things yesterday, ot perhaps my hangover was harder to overcome than I had expected. For the whole day, I was a limp mess of a man, stumbling around the office, three espressos down[…]
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