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08.26 – 09.01

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Life

Survived another week flying solo with the kids.

Σσ described Ηη as having main character syndrome which was a new one on me, but sounds pretty much spot on. Hard to see why he wouldn’t imagine himself as the main character though since we’ve done nothing to disabuse him of that notion for the last 4.5 years.

Spent bank holiday Monday buying him school uniform. Fortunately he seems to like it.

Took them over to Parliament Hill paddling pool on Wednesday. It was a bit of a mission and Ηη threatened to ruin it (because he was annoyed about getting wet) but then he seemed to clock that Αα was loving it and the threat of missing out apparently made him up his game. I tried not to focus on just how manky the water looked (remarkably similar to Parliament Hill cross country conditions).

Thursday was Ηη’s last day of nursery ever. I can’t quite believe it. No you cried when you went to pick him up. Unfortunately there’s still two weeks until he starts at school and Jim and Ange (who we’d imagined were going to look after him) are holed up in Scotland with Aila. I’m grateful I have such accommodating colleagues at work (do-whatever-you-need-family-comes-first-just-don’t-tell-HR).

Bae came back at the weekend. We celebrated by washing Ηη’s hair (hands down the most stressful event of any week).

Aila’s progress is marginal and I think we’re all starting to realise that it’s going to be a very long road.

Work

Who knows?

Running

• Tuesday hills
• Thursday marshes
• Sunday hills and the Heath (think I saw a Gallagher brother sauntering down Swain’s)