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A long day
I’ve had a very long day. I’m not complaining; it’s been a great opportunity to fit lots in, but it has also meant I woke on the sofa with drool in my beard at 10pm and the television blaring. Fortunately my progeny is too young to bear witness to this.
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Que?
I had the last lesson in my Spanish course today, a revision of the previous nine lessons. This commenced with a game of dominoes, before going on to a test of vocabulary where I realized I had forgotten key things like being able to ask "what?" or the spelling of the Sppanish for "sixty". Oh […]
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Running slowly
After work today I went for a run around the Marina Bay with one of my colleagues. Usually what happens is that he sprints off far too quickly and then falls apart, and my slow but steady pace gets me back before him. Not today.
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Traveling with babies
The really painful part about traveling with babies isn’t the noises they make on the plane, or the huge amount of paraphernalia you feel you have to drag around with you, a mound of diapers, dummies, breast pumps, toys, blankets, clothes and everything else you think you might need. It’s not even the occasional grumpy […]
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Flying with baby
We flew back to Singapore today. Felicity was a little bit harder to travel with this time because she didn’t want to sleep, and was fussy for quite a lot of the flight. That meant I had to keep getting up and bouncing her for ten minutes, until she fell asleep, at which point I’d […]
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Parting is sweet sorrow
We started packing at 9:30 in the evening and finished around midnight. When we flew into Heathrow from Singapore, we had two bags that were about half full. Returning, we have three bags, each packed to the seams. I spent some time with the scales, juggling items between bags to ensure the correct blend of […]
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Crystal Palace Park
One problem with not sleeping on the flight from Halifax to London is that you arrive fairly ruined, so although I profited by watching The Great Gatsby and Monsters University, I suffered from being so tired that I kept forgetting that I’d watched The Great Gatsby, which left me worrying about what on earth I’d […]
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The Great Gatsby
On the way back to London, I watched The Great Gatsby. I’m pretty sure Baz Luhrman didn’t intend for it to be viewed on a six inch wide LCD display no more than a foot away from my eyes, but you make do with what you can. The Great Gatsby is a very short book […]
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The Flying Muffler
As promised to her, we took our daughter to see the Flying Muffler today, after first opening a Canadian bank account for her, eating a chocolate croissant as big as my face, and doing some early Christmas shopping.
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Thirteen Timbits, please
Yesterday I wasn’t in as good a mood as today. I pit that down to Tim Hortons’ doughnuts, the culinary equivalent of an asymptote; something you should be forever approaching, without ever reaching. If I hadn’t eaten that maple dip doughnut, the promise of it would have remained forever as a platonic ideal, rather than […]