This afternoon my daughter went to sleep for three hours. I assume this was her idea of a practical joke. I got home just before seven p.m., to be presented with a child who was[…]
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Month: April 2015
Short before sleep
I woke up late today. I’m struggling with a cold, one of those low-level infections where you have a sore throat and feel a bit cruddy but not sick enough to justify doing much about[…]
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Sandwiched
I didn’t feel great this morning; a possible aftereffect of drinking a bucket of Hoegaarden, half a bottle of wine and three gin and tonics last night. But I wasn’t hungover; you don’t get to[…]
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Small Eruptions
This evening, after spending all day presenting what we’d worked on all weekend, I got to take the evening off and get something to eat. I was taken out to Etna, an Italian restaurant on[…]
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Of batteries, and frustration
Today my wife handed me Bedtime Bear, in a slight panic. It was approaching one p.m., La Serpiente Aquatica Negra had yet to nap, and Bedtime Bear, the little pink fluffy gadget that sings her[…]
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Where did all the buildings go?
We went to the zoo today, and when we came home, all exhausted and soaked with sweat from staring at different animals, my wife, my child and I all went to sleep. I woke first,[…]
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No coffee for Arctic Bill
For no reason I can think of, we stayed up until 1am last night, which meant I rode to the Parkrun today on even less sleep than usual. That’s one excuse for why I had[…]
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Don’t you have homes to go to?
I’m walking home from the office. It’s almost 11pm. I was checking emails at 4 this morning while consoling my phlegmatic child, I was in the office on a phone call at 8:30 this morning[…]
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Out cold
Our daughter has a bit of a cold, after hugging an infectious child some time earlier this week. That’s made her sneeze – usually adorable little noises but once today a disgusting display of mucus[…]
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A long short run
Tonight at the track the session is my least favourite: 20 minutes, followed by a four minute break, then two sets of five minutes punctuated by a single minute’s rest. This is the session where[…]
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