Today was a pleasant, sunny day, although I didn’t have a very good breakfast (heavy on croissants, light on good quality protein) and I was probably still knackered from yesterday, so I was far too[…]
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Month: August 2017
A morning out
This morning was Family Day for La Serpiente’s school, and to celebrate it they had a charity morning, where the children went to an HDB estate in Ang Mo Kio to give out food parcels.[…]
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In the morning
Predictably enough, after we put Destroyer to bed last night she came into our room at 2 in the morning, followed by La Serpiente at 4 in the morning, and nobody woke up until 8[…]
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A breakthrough
Last night, when Destroyer wouldn’t stop screaming at me at bedtime, I sang the first line of “Do You Want To Build A Snowman” and she stopped screaming immediately. She did then spend an hour[…]
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Lovecraft Country
This week I read Lovecraft Country, a book with a Lovecraftian bent, although it was more the Lovecraft of The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward, crossed with the Horror at Red Hook, than The Call[…]
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Against sleep
We had a fairly placid Saturday; La Serpiente lay next to me for an hour and watched cat videos, then we went out to brunch and then came back so the girls could roll toy[…]
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A short walk, spoiled
This morning I went to Sentosa for a team building event. I took a train down to Harbourfront, then the monorail over to the island. Staring at my phone, I got off at the first[…]
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Swimming Lesson #8
Today, breaststroke again. I think this is a vote of confidence in my freestyle, or an admission that while it’s scrappy, there’s more benefit to be had from.improving other strokes right now. Today we started[…]
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Settle down there please
On Monday I was out late, last night we both stayed in to watch Game of Thrones, and tonight it was my wife’s turn to go out drinking, while I tried to get the girls[…]
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Late to the party: Game of Thrones
Tonight we watched the first episode of Game of Thrones, after my wife finally bullied me into shelling out for a subscription to Starhub Go in order to be able to watch it. (Never mind[…]
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