This morning I had three free hours to go bouldering with friends, while the kids played at home. (I hadn’t realised until my wife pointed out to me that our girls hardly ever have time[…]
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Category: Family
A deserved journey to hell: Port Of Lost Souls
As they say, karma is a bitch. Or rather, if you make your children weep with sadness, you’re going to have to go to a water park.
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Of pancakes and exercise
Screaming woke me. It punctured the shield of the hangover I had, eventually forcing me toeave my bed and see what the children were screaming about. They were, of course, just screaming. They don’t need[…]
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What I talk about when I talk to my children
I’ve been waking my girls to school almost every day this year, and my hope was stay this would be a good way for us to bond. On our way to school we would discuss[…]
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Cold in the tropics
Last night La Serpiente came in about 1am, and I was relegated to the other room, where I slept next to Destroyer. It was incredibly cold in there, and I didn’t realise until the morning[…]
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Shirking responsibility and turtles
This morning we went to the Turtle Museum in the Chinese Garden. This is out in the west of Singapore, where the museum houses a (Guinness) record-breaking number of turtles. The children liked this, because[…]
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Fear of the dark
Destroyer had forgiven my finger biting from last night. This was good, because it was my turn to put the girls to bed and that wouldn’t be very easy if they were terrified that I[…]
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Not so hot cross buns
A friend came over this evening to pick up our old coffee table, and at some point he mentioned that he’d never had a hot cross bun. So I toasted a couple and buttered them,[…]
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Further adventures in varnish
The weekend we moved into our apartment, I revarnished the butcher block we have in our kitchen. I was super pleased with the deep, glossy finish that resulted from two thick coats of varnish. We[…]
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A game of two halves
This morning, I got up, went out for a couple of coffees with one of my friends and had a pleasant hour discussing the ethics of charitable donations and the philosophy of mathematics, and topped[…]
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