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Climbing the walls for Mother’s Day
This morning, after my wife had opened her mother’s day cards, I got the children out from under her feet by taking them down to the Tiong Bahru Bakery for bread-related shenanigans. That meant a quick detour to a public lavatory, where Destroyer first demanded and then denied the need for a toilet, and then […]
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Rain and Caldas da Rainha
It rained this morning but this didn’t dissuade the girls from going outside and playing in the sand. Eventually when we’d all got it together we drove down to Sao Martino, a small seaside town about 20 minutes away. There’s not much there; a few restaurants, a sandy beach, ice cream. It felt like a […]
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Stuck between stations
Two of our best friends in Singapore are moving to Hong Kong, and they have a lot of booze to get rid of, so this evening we went over the road to their flat for dinner. In some parallel universe where we had a babysitter, that is.
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4 weeks of eating
I remember reading psychological research from a few years ago, that purported to show that people who photographed their meals enjoyed them less than those who did not. I’m not sure if that is entirely true (or if it’s biassed by groups of dieters guiltily photographing their lunches) but there was a great feeling of […]
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Pizza the action
After almost a year and a half (since a dreadful bout of food poisoning from badly prepared pasta sauce that she then associated with a pizza), La Serpiente has begun eating pizza again. She asked for it today, and we were too tired to cook tonight, plus I had a migraine and pizza is the traditional pre-run […]
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Pizza the action
After almost a year and a half (since a dreadful bout of food poisoning from badly prepared pasta sauce that she then associated with a pizza), La Serpiente has begun eating pizza again. She asked for it today, and we were too tired to cook tonight, plus I had a migraine and pizza is the traditional pre-run […]
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I love you so please shut up
First, a history lesson: There is no such thing as a bad idea on the internet, just an idea that isn’t ready yet. Back in 2000, Urbanfetch and Kozmo both had the same idea – (similar to the point that one sued the other) that you could make money by delivering things to people as […]
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Guacamole
It’s hot in Singapore, stupidly hot these last few days, and all I could do today was nod off to sleep while my baby tried to clamber off various pieces of furniture, and my wife asked why we didn’t possess an espresso machine to rectify my sleepiness. It wouldn’t help: this wasn’t about a caffeine […]
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All Inclusive
We’re staying at an all-inclusive resort. All food, all drink, everything except WiFi is gratis, paid for in advance. This has unfortunate consequences.
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Me gusta …
Tonight I had a Spanish lesson after work, to make up for the one I missed when I was in Hong Kong. It was quite a different dynamic to going to class on Saturdays; for a start, I was in an evil temper after work, and my mood wasn’t improved by getting lost on the […]
