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  • Drinking class

    I got up early this morning and put myself through 25 minutes of core exercises before everyone else woke up. I sweated so much that even if my arms hadn’t been limp noodles by the halfway point, I still wouldn’t have been able to complete the sets properly. Still, something is better than nothing, and […]

  • Boulder Movement Carnival

    After work today, I went to Boulder Movement for their carnival. This was a Friday night extravaganza of climbing, and funfair sideshow games. That was an interesting combination: working on your upper body strength and then trying to win at a hook-a-duck stall. I learned several things. 1 I’m really crap at throwing balls. There […]

  • A few drinks after work

    To celebrate completing two years at work, my team went out this evening and we ate Mexican food and drank copious amounts of red wine.  I speechified, I was garrulous, and then I got the train home and staggered in to the house, flopping my head down and trying to think how to explain what […]

  • Cheese and wine

    This evening I had a training session at the climbing wall and when I was done, I met my wife at a cheese and wine event in the same building. Well, it was ostensibly a cheese and wine event; I was drinking gin and ginger beer (and alcoholic ginger beer) and eating pizza. I suppose […]

  • 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.

  • Constant drinking consequences

    Today we had a cooking lesson for La Serpiente. A friend of ours took us down to the Tekka Market in Little India, where she got to pick out a selection of peppers, ginger and vegetables, and look at the massed ranks of squid waiting to be bought, and then went back to cook them […]

  • Firsts

    Today was the first time in years that I got a blister from running; about a kilometre from the end of the parkrun, I felt my left shoe loosen, and then begin to chafe against my heel, and then the inevitable occurred and I’ve been hobbling ever since. I had an ok run, putting in […]

  • Sleep deprivation for kids

    Like idiots, we agreed to take our daughter out to dinner with friends this evening, starting at exactly the time when she’d normally be going to bed. A meltdown loomed…

  • Chairman of Culture

    As the Chairman of the Culture Committee, for the inaugural event I had to stand on a desk this evening and bellow at my colleagues. I stood there, wearing my jacket turned inside out to display the bright red lining, and declaimed to the masses how fortunate they were. After telling them how important I […]