La Serpiente didn’t wake me at sparrowfart this morning, which was quite uncharacteristic of her. That meant we didn’t leave the house until 8:30, and didn’t get to Coal Creek until 9, but luckily that[…]

After staying up too late last night, I felt wrecked, so after dropping the girls off at school I had an hour’s nap, which got me close enough to life again. Because we haven’t done[…]

I stayed up late playing Blood Bowl tonight, but was at least rewarded with a draw after a long string of losses. Earlier, I went climbing at Seattle Bouldering Project, where strangely things felt much[…]

Tonight I told the girls a story about Derek Potato. As is probably quite obvious from the name, Derek Potato is a large man with a big hat and a coat, who invented potatoes and[…]

For our second day of school, I rushed the girls out of the house and then found we arrived too early for them to go in. Some fine tuning on the school run is required[…]

I went swimming tonight, with my old pair of goggles that I bought a couple of years ago back in Singapore. As I got into the pool, I realised that the strap had detached from[…]

The girls go back to school tomorrow, and so we’ve spent the last minutes of tonight in vague panic, trying to locate their backpacks and reading the various instructions about where to deposit both girls[…]

I had a swim booked today, but as I got ready to enter the pool, I discovered that my goggles had broken, the rubber connecting the eyepieces together ripping irreparably. I tried breaststroke, failed horribly,[…]

Today was the girls’ final day of full remote learning; on Monday they return to in-person lessons (four days of the week) although to confuse things I have to drop them off at different parts[…]

La Serpiente overslept and failed to prank us this morning, leading to tears of disappointment on her part. Maybe I made it worse by pretending I’d fooled everyone today – it took Destroyer to figure[…]