It’s the Singapore International Jazz Festival this weekend, and although the tickets are extortionately expensive and I’ve never been that big a fan of some old geezer parping on a saxophone or playing all the[…]
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Month: March 2017
Very early to rise, early to bed
La Serpiente woke up at four this morning, screaming the house down because she didn’t have her big white bunny rabbit. Eventually, my exasperated wife located this cuddly toy, but by then Destroyer had been[…]
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Glutton for punishment
I went to the track for the Wednesday night session; I don’t think I’d been once during my marathon training, which means it’s the first time I’ve been this year. And as my wife is[…]
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A fistful of frequent flyer points
La Serpiente woke me up at 4 this morning, after 4 blissful nights of uninterrupted sleep, and I’d struggled to get to sleep last night anyway, so I was once again shambling through today, not[…]
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The Invisible Runner
It’s strange; I remember very little of the marathon, even a short time after finishing it. The very start, where i went far too fast. Running behind Marina Bay Sands is something I think I[…]
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Sundown Marathon 2017
This morning I ran the Sundown Marathon. It didn’t go quite the way I was hoping, but I think I did better than expected, in that I did at least finish. And I got the[…]
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The Liberation
Today I finished reading The Liberation, which I started about 9pm on Friday night when I realised the third part of Ian Tregillis’ Alchemy Wars trilogy had been released. I don’t think I wrote about[…]
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Pizza the action
After almost a year and a half (since a dreadful bout of food poisoning from badly prepared pasta sauce that she then associated with a pizza), La Serpiente has begun eating pizza again. She asked for it[…]
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Pizza the action
After almost a year and a half (since a dreadful bout of food poisoning from badly prepared pasta sauce that she then associated with a pizza), La Serpiente has begun eating pizza again. She asked for it[…]
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Deposits
My wife took the girls to the beach today, where Destroyer spent the afternoon pouring sand on her head, and they enjoyed that so much that they didn’t get home until 7:30, to find me[…]
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