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We drove the girls out to Bothell today, a small town north of Seattle we first visited for the July 4th parade last year. This time, with the lockdown in force, we bought burgers to[…]

I fell asleep between the girls tonight, because Destroyer wanted to talk to me about… something or other? I’d been drinking the last of our bottle of pear wine so I was a bit sleepy,[…]

La Serpiente outgrew her old bike a little while ago, and she’s been pressing me for a bike with gears so she can ride up the dire hills of Seattle, so at lunchtime today I[…]

Today I took the girls to their local coffee shop, or at least the one where I always stop on my way to and from the cliffs when we go riding. I didn’t feel like[…]

I shaved off my beard today, leaving only a goatee, and now I don’t recognise myself, and the children are disappointed because they want me to have a big bushy beard because that’s funny. I[…]

Today the girls got to do their first paid work, cleaning my bike. It’s not actually that dirty, having only been on the roads, but there was a lot of grey black smudges from rainwater[…]

We borrowed a friend’s car today and drove up to Deception Pass. This is one of the State Parks that isn’t closed for social distancing purposes at the moment; it’s 90 minutes north of Seattle,[…]

We all slept in late today, and when I’d finally got up and fed the kids,it was time to present them with their new Lego. There were two box sets, both themed around the second[…]

Having now done more than 400 miles on my electric bike, I’m more than ever convinced how glorious it is. I can put children on the back of it,I can commute to work without exhausting[…]

Today went better, as expected. I took the kids out riding and got them some sunshine, I managed to get most of my work done,and I even realised I could get a friend to vet[…]