I’ve been watching the Sopranos again, decades after it first aired. My wife is less than impressed that I’m using our TV to watch overweight men in New Jersey doing terrible things to one another.

Yesterday I went for a hike with the girls, and then had to run for a mile down a road to get the car before it rained, wearing an unsuitability heavy pair of boots. So[…]

Two drinks last night and no coffee this morning contributed to a horrible hangover that took all day to subside. With my wife still suffering from neck pains, after I’d deposited the girls at school[…]

I was surprised to wake today and not be wracked with pain from climbing – for a change, it looks like I judged correctly how much work I should put my body through.

After a day of continuous, incredibly loud banging and sawing, I read to the girls and then drove to the climbing wall, where I managed just over forty minutes of climbing, for the first time[…]

I put together my waterpik today, a electric powered flossing machine that I hadn’t used since we moved out back in June. It was quite revolting, covered in dust from the building work, and as[…]

Today, they framed the rear extension to our house. That can’t convey the madness of the day.

I bought my wife this for her birthday, but selfishly read it first, ten pages two nights ago and the other 229 pages in one go after putting the kids to bed. It’s beautifully written[…]

We took the girls to the aquarium this morning, and they spent most of two hours at the touch tanks, mesmerised by anenomes and sea cucumbers. After that, a trip to Pike Place Market for[…]

I had a cleaning appointment at the dentist today, which was almost an hour lying down with somebody else’s hands in my mouth. I seemed to spend the majority of that time inhaling my own[…]