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07.21 – 07.27

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Life

The summer holidays started in earnest. I can’t quite believe Ηη has finished his first year at school. He’s definitely grown up quite a bit. We got him into a holiday club with Glastonbury levels of ticketing desperation. So far he seems to have been fairly happy with the situation which is nice.

Αα has decided to go absolutely fucking ballistic about pretty much everything at least 50 times a day which is fairly tiring. Ηη is managing to be slightly calmer and more considerate. Still shitting himself aplenty mind you. We’ve resolved to talk to another doctor since nothing we’ve said or done for the past three years seems to have made the blindest bit of difference.

We hung out with Heather and Liv at the splash pad on Friday afternoon. Probably our most successful trip there to date. Αα is already keen to stand directly beneath big bucket, which is something Ηη has been petrified about until this summer.

We looked after Gabi on Sunday while her mamas finished packing for their imminent trip to Spain. Neither me nor Σσ had very much time for her frankly crap mood, so nobody had a much fun. It really hammered home the power of parental love – if it was Ηη or Αα behaving like that (which, let’s face it, it often is) we’d have given them much more slack and love, but other people’s kids are pains in arses. At least we successfully avoided a trip to the fair.

The Tour de France was maybe not a vintage edition, but we got to watch a lot of it, and plenty of it was entertaining. The final stage especially was a cracker. Then we watched the England ladies scrap(e) through to win the Euros final. Kids chanting ‘ARSENAL! ARSENAL!’ throughout.

The absolutely huge news is that Aila’s going to be getting Johnny’s kidney provisionally in mid-September as long as everyone stays stable. The day after we got that news she was back in hospital because the dialysis isn’t working well. She’s ok though, but I doubt anyone imagines that it’s going to be plain sailing at any point.

Work

Various two-syllable words starting with ‘con’.

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Confusing.

TIL

Running

• Tuesday not track
• Thursday Highgate wood
• Sunday hills