It was wet and cold today, and I’d failed to sleep properly last night, so the day dragged on. Coffee helped a bit, but not enough. Hopefully tomorrow is better.

This morning I went climbing again, and had a better time than last week – I didn’t regress much, there only being one route I can’t climb that I’ve managed before, and a few new[…]

We drove to Shipley Farm, half an hour north of Seattle. It’s an organic apple farm where you can pick as many apples as you can carry. Beforehand, the farmer told us of how he[…]

We hired a car today, and the intermediate I’d requested turned out to be a Nissan Rogue, an SUV that feels enormous even if that’s normal by US standards. I picked up my eldest from[…]

Today was a bit of a daze. I woke late, rushed the girls through breakfast and an abbreviated wall up to school and back, and then had a two hour training session led by a[…]

Today was cold but sunny, and as the girls have Wednesday afternoons off, I was meant to take them out for a bike ride. But, with my knees sore (probably from sitting around all day[…]

Today a large cardboard box was delivered to my front porch, containing a brand new Oculus VR headset. I unpacked it at lunchtime, and then while the girls were watching TV this evening, I had[…]

Today we cut open the Battenburg to see if we’d succeeded or not. A few things we learned: The recipe was much too big. A pound of sugar, a pound of flour and six eggs[…]

I stayed up too late last night, so when I rode down to the climbing wall today I wasn’t in the right mood. Still tired from Friday’s session, I could do less than I had[…]

La Serpiente and I went for a very long walk today; I persuaded her that we should go and refresh our supply of biscuits, and once we’d walked down to 59th Street, I bribed her[…]