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Month: March 2017

  • Jazz: delicious hot, disgusting cold

    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 wrong notes on a piano or some sho-wop-a-booby-bop whatever or shooting up heroin in grainy black and white photos, my […]

  • 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 woken up. Or rather, we heard weeping from her room. We opened the door to check: silence. We closed the […]

  • 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 starting an exercise class on Wednesday evenings from next week, it could also be the last time I’ll go this […]

  • 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 quite sure where the world was or what my place was in it. Perhaps this was the wrong day to […]

  • 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 remember, although that may just be baseless conjecture. The last few hundred metres, jogging as hard as I could through […]

  • 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 highest score I’ve ever had in a marathon – never got over 4 hours before! Ahem. I guess personal bests […]

  • 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 The Mechanical, whereas I wrote about The Rising, the second part, and didn’t enjoy it that much. So I was […]

  • 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 today, and we were too tired to cook tonight, plus I had a migraine and pizza is the traditional pre-run […]

  • 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 today, and we were too tired to cook tonight, plus I had a migraine and pizza is the traditional pre-run […]

  • 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 recovering from a marathon. A marathon of playing computer games. My wife deposited the kids with me, and then fled […]