January, 2018 - cushtie.com - Page 2

Month: January 2018

  • Pie Face and other adventures

    This morning we had friends round, which meant the girls ran around screaming for two hours, then fell asleep at midday. This suited me fine as I could then concentrate on eating cheese and sorting through which tshirts I’m going to throw out when we move. When the girls woke up, we decided to play […]

  • Not so lazy Saturday

    Last night we stayed up late watching Cars 3, an action I am at a loss to explain, and the universe punished us for this by having our girls come in at 7am and deny us a Saturday morning lie in by lying on top of us. I struggled upright, and later took La Serpiente […]

  • Night manouvres

    The girls both went swimming this afternoon, and so they were good and tired. La Serpiente was asleep in less than one Bedtime Bear, but Destroyer faffed and fiddled for ages, then made me get the spare mattress and put it on the floor. Then she told me to "lie like a butterfly" which I […]

  • Swimming Lesson #18

    Swimming Lesson #18

    At the weekend, while my wife was buying shoes and I was wondering if the cheeseburger I’d eaten was going to kill me or not, I bought a swimming hat. And yesterday, when I gave up looking for my bobby dazzler goggles, I bought a new, less glam pair. So my appearance has altered slightly.

  • Stretching yourself

    Back to Boulder Movement this evening for more strength training. I panicked, leaving the office only 20 minutes before the session, but miraculously catching a bus that got me there in ten minutes. I’m starting to settle into the routine: Unfeasibly hard warm up, given all I’m doing is crouching or bending over – 3 […]

  • A bloody finger

    I put on my compression sleeves and went to the climbing wall tonight. That sentence fails to convey the gibbering minutes spent with my wife helping me to pull the compression sleeves up my arms (you really need two hands to get them over your biceps) and giggling. But enough of that.

  • 2XU Compression Sleeves

    2XU Compression Sleeves

    With all the climbing I’ve been doing, I’m suffering a bit from fatigued arms. I know from experience that compression clothing helps when you have tired legs, and so I figured it was time to see if they can help my upper body too.

  • Apes A-Go-Go

    This evening I read the girls Apes A-Go-Go, a short story about unintended consequences. It is set in a provincial town, on the verge of winning the Tidiest Town competition for a third consecutive year. Except one flower is slightly out of place…

  • Back on the meat

    I stopped eating meat on January 1st, 1997 (although just to be contrary, I went beagling for the first time that day too) and since then I’ve mostly avoided meat. A girlfriend unwittingly served me lamb stew at university once, I ate a pork sausage on a Eurostar journey to Paris (it was in the […]

  • A little bit lost

    I was invited to dinner at a work colleague’s condo. She lives at 03-01, which sounds like a reasonable address until you discover that her condo complex has 16 different lobbies, each with an apartment 03-01. And her phone is turned off.