One of the unintended consequences of a heatwave is that afterwards your house has several new occupants. Ours is crawling with flies, moths and spiders that came in through doors…
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I’ve not been feeling in brilliant health lately. Truthfully, I feel old – exercise is taxing, I get out of breath, I always feel tired and maintaining a non-slouching posture…
I’ve taken the boys to the ancestral lands for a week. Finland is as ever – green, quiet, everything sparsely. This time my eye has been drawn to graffiti and…
The potentially exaggerated news of Evernote’s demise caused me to install Notion, and I’ve been trialling it in August. I started out a bit sceptical – I didn’t like the…
My older son’s closest friends from nursery are all going to school in September, bar one. At the same time his very best friend’s family are moving to Canada, so…
My new strategy of abandoning books that aren’t doing it for me is having the desired effect – reading more. I’m still reading at a pace that would have shocked…
I’ve had a bit of a bittersweet realisation over the summer with the difficulty in finding a house to buy. I think London and I have grown apart. There are…
We have hit some kind of golden days with the two little boys. I wouldn’t say they’re easy to look after, but it’s a day-and-night situation to about two years…
Last week Cal and I both caught a horrendous stomach bug from our younger son. Three days we both took off work – unheard of for me. And they weren’t…
We had some ambitious weekend plans – on Saturday we were going to spend most of the day at a kid birthday party our friends were hosting on the other…