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Month: December 2014

All the things we keep, all the things we miss

31 December, 20141 January, 2015 James ForemanResolutions

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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Cleaning up Cecile

30 December, 201425 September, 2015 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

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

29 December, 2014 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

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

28 December, 201429 December, 2014 James ForemanRunning

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

27 December, 2014 James ForemanRunning

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

26 December, 2014 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

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

25 December, 2014 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

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

24 December, 2014 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

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

23 December, 2014 James ForemanRunning

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

22 December, 2014 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

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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