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06.23 – 06.29

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Life

Caught up with Andy P (Andy P! Andy P!) for a very pleasant run in the evening sunshine on Tuesday. It had been far too long – he’s a scholar, a gent, and exceptionally good company even when panting and borderline dehydrated. Niamh was coincidentally also back in town on some high-powered book business – the last time I saw her was also the last time I saw Andy (also too long ago).

The weather was generally hot af. By and large I was here for it. The loft did turn into a bit of a sauna at night, but we invested in an air-conditioning fan and didn’t fare too badly (the white noise it generated probably also helped to drown out the traffic). Couldn’t convince Ηη to forego his duvet even as I demonstrated to him the extent of his sweatiness – he’s even more a creature of habit than me.

Σσ had to work Wednesday so I took it off and took Αα to the transport museum (fun) and Ηη to his swimming lesson (not remotely fun).

Three boys in Ηη’s class had a joint party in the park after school on Friday. I thought there was a chance Ηη would get stuck in with everyone else since it was outside (definitely his preferred environs). But he reverted to type, bollocking about doing his own thing and getting increasingly arsey about anything and everything even though aunty Kika (his favourite) was attending.

Then Σσ collected Liv from her nursery and took her back to her house for the night because George and Mark had gone to Glasto. Liv apparently just took herself to bed at 7:30 and slept solidly till 7:30 the next morning. Then she came round to ours in the morning and amused herself for pretty much an hour without need for intervention. It was a window into how life could be in a parallel universe (if our kids had fundamentally different personalities).

Jim, Ange and Emily came on the Saturday for Σσ’s belated 40th at Mildred’s in Soho. It was such an exceptionally good party – everyone was on form, and everything clicked. All of Σσ’s friends are excellent (obviously I would say that having a considerable amount of skin in the game, but still, they really are). It was also the first time we entrusted a non-family babysitter to the task of getting the kids to sleep and it (apparently, according to both parties, but who really knows?) was fine. Nice to know it’s an option – being out late in town was definitely fun and I’d like to do it again sometime.

Varying degrees of splashpad success on Sunday.

Work

Firebreak week meant I did odds and sods then got roped into fixing some Hotjar bullshit just when I was about to consider doing something interesting.

Running

• Tuesday Andy P
• Thursday hills
• Saturday Highbury Fields parkrun 18:10 (post-kids PB, didn’t really mean to go for it but ended up near the front and couldn’t help myself. And it’s much flatter than Finsbo. Strava AI still thinks I could run a 5k in 18:35 if I tried)
• Sunday Heathside LSR