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  • Quiet night in

    My wife had her Zumba class this evening, which meant I couldn’t go to the track. Instead, I gave the girls their baths and then put Destroyer to bed. “No!” she protested grumpily every time I tried to get her to lie down, demanding I read her Matilda’s Cat, a book with a great paucity […]

  • Tears before bedtime

    It’s International Women’s Day today, and looking back over the many years I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve never made mention of it before. Today, though, to celebrate it I gave my wife the night off and a total break from child management duties.  Not really. She was going out on the lash so I […]

  • Quality time

    I’ve not been very good at reading stories to the girls this week; tonight I went to the track for my monthly 30 minute run-as-hard-as-you-can test, and didn’t get home until La Serpiente was down. Destroyer was happily bumbling around the house, trying to climb onto the kitchen worktops and generally being cute. That .Add […]

  • Double bedtime

    Tonight I put both children to bed; I tried to avoid it by going out to the track for a run first, but my wife had cunningly kept Destroyer and La Serpiente awake so when I got in at 8:20, they were still ready and raring to go. La Serpiente got four books before bedtime, […]

  • Mr Wayne’s Masterpiece

    At long last, La Serpiente and I seem to have reached agreement on what a suitable book for bedtime is. No more arguments over whether we’ll read Fantastic Mr Fox or not. No more parents reduced to tears by Love You Forever. Instead, a thin hardback book that was chosen either by me or by […]

  • Slightly out of it

    I was woken at one this morning, and at four. The second time, I felt nauseous and had a dreadful headache, and these persisted after I’d put La Serpiente back to bed, and after I woke up, sleeping through my alarm. All day I’ve had a slight temperature and a throbbing headache, and the first […]

  • Nobody knew that something terrible was going to happen – Pompeii

    Tonight La Serpiente was adamant that I read her Pompeii, a chapter book for small children that is inexplicably one of her favourites. She first started reading it around the time that her sister was born, and it’s remained in her top ten ever since, even against the onslaught of glamourous alternatives from the library.

  • Trigger Warning: Love You Forever

    Tonight, as usual, La Serpiente Aquatica Negra selected three books for me to read to her while she sat on my lap before she went to bed. The first was about Peppa Pig playing football and the third I can’t remember, because the second was the titanic misery fest that is Robert Munsch’s Love You […]

  • Baby Brainwashing

    Today was my first day back to the office, and it felt very strange to walk down the street from our apartment and not be toting thirteen kilos of toddler. Spending two weeks in the constant company of a two year old has had some clear effects on my mind.

  • Another brutal one

    This evening, La Serpiente Aquatica Negra screamed constantly for her mother for an hour at bedtime. Since her mother was in the other room, tending to Butterball Destroyer, and in any case is recovering and can’t pick up La Serpiente at the moment, I was left to confront my child and stop her from opening […]