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04.21 – 04.27

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Life

We got the train home on Tuesday as it was an inset day allowing us to escape the perils of bank holiday travel.

Ηη, having successfully avoided shitting himself for the entirety of the holidays reverted to type at the end of the week and broke his winning streak in the playground after I picked him up from school. Still, we had a good run.

Σσ went back to Scotland for Niamh’s book launch (Ηη thinks she’s sending it into space and I’m not going to be the one to disabuse him of this notion). Apparently it was excellent, only slightly marred by Niamh’s dad fainting in the pub afterwards (he was fine). Then Σσ went back the hospital for a couple of nights to help Dani while the rest of Σσ’s fam were awol. The kids (aforementioned unfortunate lavatorial relapse aside) were pretty good for me.

We hit the funfair in Clissold on Saturday which was remarkably ok. Our kids largely avoided any meltdowns (poor little Rawi didn’t fare quite so well but to be honest that probably helped with my impression of it not having been awful – there’s nothing like someone else having a worse parenting experience to vastly improve my mood).

Saturday evening we went to see The Flaming Lips at Brixton Academy. We missed almost all of the first half which was unfortunate (especially since it was Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in its entirety – ostensibly what we were there for), but we still got a solid two hours of excellent show and I don’t think I had any more standing left in my legs so probably for the best. Huge tip of the hat to Rach for agreeing to babysit last minute – even though I’d had the tickets for c. 5 months (a Christmas present for Σσ) I only remembered about them when I’d read about the London marathon in the news which triggered a vague sense that we were supposed to be doing something the night before.

Σσ went to see her cousin Luc run the marathon on Sunday but I hung back with the kids. I’m sorry to have missed it but history teaches us it’s not really a fun day out for them. We watched infinite cartoons instead.

Running

• Monday Kilmarnock shake out
• Thursday hills
• Sunday Camden Hampstead loop