I heard that Michelle Obama was once being teased by her children about not being a very good cook, and responding that being a great cook wasn’t her purpose. I…
Meri, Meri, quite contreri
I heard that Michelle Obama was once being teased by her children about not being a very good cook, and responding that being a great cook wasn’t her purpose. I…
When you have children, you play a round of Russian Roulette every morning. BAM! Someone is sick and you have to take the day off work. Clearly, the more children…
I have a sense of foreboding regarding the next few weeks at work. Maybe this or some other anxiety caused me to have my first real nightmare in a long…
It’s the start of another busy period at work, and that means routine / process design and test time! I’m one of those sorry souls who genuinely believe they’re always…
Parking in areas where there is a lot of demand is a fascinating case study in some of the principles of economics. Southwark council has recently enforced a controlled parking…
I’m enjoying studying for my UK citizenship test more than I thought I would. There’s a sense of filling in the gaps – I can’t recall my basic education in…
The baby’s rate of gaining bruises and bumps has gone up in an ice-hockey-stick curve over the weekend. He took his first unsupported steps on Sunday and thus emboldened has…
I’ve been rather obsessively watching the length of the queue to see the Queen’s coffin lying in state. At the time of writing it’s almost five miles long. If it…
If someone made a montage scene of my morning it would look a lot more interesting than it really was, especially if you speed it all up. Two little bugs…
The baby is now very close to walking, and while that will be wonderful, it will also be not-wonderful. Breaking up toy and territorial disputes is easy at the moment…