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Deep fryer
I came home on Thursday after a really horrible day in the office – I do that office-thing once a week, and mostly have quite good days, but last Thursday was the worst – after drinks with a new and … Continue reading
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Tagged air-fryer, air-fryers, Cliveden, cooking, deep fryer, food, marriagetales, Mothers Day, Portobello Road, pub quiz, recipe
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Weak sun. Strong sons.
We’ve been out today in the pale, bright early spring sunshine, because we are all obviously vitamin D deficient. We’ve had a perfectly fine winter – not very cold, uneventful, longish and grey but no more than you would expect … Continue reading
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Tagged camping, doritos, elderly-parents, kensington-gardens, kidney stones, life, lockdown, nature, sons, spring, writing
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First, a farewell
You know how December is all preoccupied with itself, and the schedule for stuff is ridiculous and you just lurch from one thing to another, and while you are at it you are a bit cranky about it all, thinking … Continue reading
A better year, we hope
It’s a few days after Christmas and we are in a cottage in Devon. It is raining and the whole place smells of bacon. I haven’t written in a while, mostly because November and December were both social engagement tsunamis … Continue reading
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Tagged bad-necks, books, christmas, Devon, holidays, muppets-christmas-carol, six-boys, teenage-boys
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A quiet place
We are two men down and everything is quiet, so quiet. Barnaby is having a most excellent time at university, enchanted by learning Russian and being introduced to art history and Wagner, although less enamoured by the liberal arts part … Continue reading
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One gone, five to go
Today, I bought one packet less of the fresh bagels on my way back from the Portobello Sunday morning run/crawl, because this morning, we are one person down. Last night, when I once again rolled up the window blind in … Continue reading
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Broke stuff
I thought, when I was a younger person, with a neck that still swivelled gracefully and hair that hadn’t yet begun to thin, that having a lot of children wasn’t going to be very expensive. The rationale was that they … Continue reading
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The waters are rising
Remi has become frightened of the toilet. He says that while he was at nursery, someone flushed the toilet that was filled with way too much toilet paper (every parent of a small child recognises this scenario) and the water … Continue reading
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May was different
It’s the 4th of June, a Sunday morning, at 7:25am. I have been awake for a few hours and no one but the dog is yet conscious. Magic, though sleepy right now, is pretty much well except for fatty lumps … Continue reading
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Some AI woes and bad poetry
I hesitated writing this post as I am in a bit of a funk about AI. Last week I had to do some research into ChatGPT and Large Language Models for work and went to a webinar thing about it … Continue reading
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The Harridan 