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Month: October 2021

  • Doughnuts and other distraction

    I bundled the kids into the car with the promise of doughnuts from Half & Half, but due to a combination of daughterly lassitude, and a lack of time to drive for an hour there and back, we ended up going to Top Pot instead. I was suffering from a lack of coffee and hunger, […]

  • Saturday Saturday Saturday

    We went back to the aquarium this morning for a few more hours of looking at fish. Unlike last time, when the girls were impossible to shift from the touch pools, today they sprinted through the galleries in order to look at the seals, had a short burst of staring at tropical fish, and were […]

  • The future is boring

    … and that’s exciting. Douglas Adams said technology is anything invented after you’re twenty; older than that it’s just normal. But if you stop and pause and realise how quick we adjust to things that are miraculous, it’s kind of amazing.

  • That grinding feeling

    We got the dishwasher powered up today, and it made a series of gasping wheezes, but not much else. It turns out that’s because the pipe to feed water to the dishwasher is disconnected. So, a few steps closer to not doing the dishes, and then a few away again. It did make a very […]