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  • Off to a crawling start

    Destroyer started to crawl a day or so ago. I didn’t notice until today: yesterday she was making her way across the floor by grabbing with her hands and heaving, her legs sliding fairly uselessly behind her, but today she was really in the swing of things. She can also sit up now from a […]

  • Off to a crawling start

    Destroyer started to crawl a day or so ago. I didn’t notice until today: yesterday she was making her way across the floor by grabbing with her hands and heaving, her legs sliding fairly uselessly behind her, but today she was really in the swing of things. She can also sit up now from a […]

  • Back quickly

    All day long I was blowing my nose, a series of increasingly ridiculous trumpeting noises and an ever-worsening amount of snot, until at twenty past six I slunk home, too tired (after a 3:30 reveille from La Serpiente) to be able to do any more. Arriving home before 6:45 was good, because I got to […]

  • Coffee and cuteness

    Predictably, after yesterday’s battering I couldn’t face going for a run today. As well as my backside, my hands and my elbows my shoulders were sore and I was allowed a rest day on my training schedule anyway, so we celebrated Chinese New Year by not doing very much to begin with, and then rushing […]

  • The Day After The Weekend

    After writing almost 1,400 words about track spikes and the parlous state of external paintwork in Singapore last night, I was ready for bed, but La Serpiente kept getting up and coming out of her room to stare at me, like the diminutive blonde star of a Japanese horror film remade for American tastes. The […]

  • Sisyphean Delights

    It was only after the second time that I had assembled Destroyer’s bed, I realised that it was in the wrong room, and I was going to have to dismantle it, and La Serpiente’s bed, and then reassemble them in different rooms. And then perhaps tomorrow I’ll discover another reason why that won’t be the […]

  • Exercises for new fathers: 0 – Sleeping

    If you’re about to have a child, you’re about to embark on a journey where your body is going to be strained in all sorts of ways. You’re not the one giving birth, which means there’s lots of things you don’t have to contend with, but you’ll need to help with lots of things you […]

  • First Day

    Today was our daughter’s first day of school. She was a model child, sleeping all night without any noise complaints until seven in the morning. Then she got up, and instead of wailing just called out "Mummy! Daddy!" in a kind tone of voice instead of a stentorian bellow. We got her up, then fed […]

  • Well rested, fire alarm tested

    La Serpiente Aquatica Negra woke up at five this morning, just long enough to guzzle half a bottle of milk and spill the rest in her hair, and then went back to sleep until 8; possibly the most sleep she’s allowed her mother and father since she moved to her new bedroom. Instead of crawling […]

  • A watery day

    I had high hopes to go for a long run this morning, but as like idiots we’d stayed up until midnight last night, even though we knew La Serpiente Aquatica Negra would make an attack at silly o’clock, I didn’t get out of bed until almost eight, by which time I needed to start panicking […]