What I Learned This Weekend


When recovering from a night of heavy drinking, I breathe too loudly. Apparently.a night of heavy drinking

I can run all the way from my home to the start of the Parkrun, and still run 5k in less than 25 minutes. I think this means I should be able to tackle another marathon sooner rather than later. Also, somewhat strangely, I believe this may have lessened my hangover today. Hoorah for heightened metabolic rates and clearing the booze out quicker.

The slide in the children’s garden at the Botanic Gardens is utterly terrifying. Or it wasn’t designed for a terribly hungover man sliding down it on a Sunday morning while his daughter demands he go faster.

Martin Martin Is On The Other Side started out strong, and then achieved lift-off about forty pages from the end.
My mind was pretty blown by the end. Or again, that was the hangover taking effect.

I should never be disloyal to Ronin.
Yesterday we went to a new coffee shop, just opposite our flat, and paid twice as much for scrambled eggs as we would at Ronin, and they were only half as good. I’m now pretty sure that if you can make good scrambled eggs, you don’t need to adulterate them with feta cheese and chilli peppers. Whereas if you can’t make good scrambled eggs…

La Serpiente does like the running stroller, if you give her a treat first.
Last week she lasted less than a minute in the running stroller. This time, after a topical application of ice cream, she was constantly shouting “Ready Steady Go Daddy!” and called out to me “This is fun” as we careered along.

Children sleep (eventually).. We’ve had seven nights now of La Serpiente going to sleep and not waking up in the night to disturb us. I think that’s enough to hope we have a proper habit instilled her. Although all hell may break loose next week when she has to deal with jet lag…

Storytime at the Children’s section of the National Libary (on the basis of one observation) doesn’t always involve the most exciting of books. Yesterday, we got to hear somebody read a book about how you should always obey your parents and not act independently, written without any thought of drama, excitement or interesting language. After a few minutes La Serpiente showed her good taste by getting up and running around the library again. I kind of wished I’d stayed outside leafing through programming manuals.

But… there’s still some very odd books in the library.. Like The Tiger Than Came To Tea, La Serpiente’s new favourite. I’ll be going into more detail on this when my brain and eyes are working again.


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