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09.01 – 09.07

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Life

Ηη went back to school on Wednesday. No drama.

Αα started in a new nursery room and the brought about a couple of days of tears at drop off, but by day three she was waltzing in professing to be ‘a big girl’. I think it took Ηη about two years to get to that point. She is different gravy. To be fair they are both different gravy, but on orthogonal dimensions.

We had pizza in Clissold with the usual suspects on Saturday for Σσ’s birthday where we also met Silkie’s six-month-old girl. I have never met a more chill baby – I’m not convinced anyone could have made it stop smiling even if they tried.

I’ve not had any booze since I got ill because I really didn’t fancy it at the time, and then I thought I might as well ride the wave of abstinence once I was feeling better. I’m not sure how long it’ll last but it feels good to have broken the cycle of moderate excess over the summer.

I started running again. Disappointingly, three weeks off doesn’t appear to have done anything for my hip. As expected, all my blood tests were normal. Perhaps I’m too healthy? It’s hard to enjoy running feeling unfit – hopefully it’ll come back without too much of a fight.

Ηη got onto a winning not-shitting-his-pants streak for a couple of weeks, but he finally dropped the ball again this week. He showed us that he can do it though and hopefully he’ll remember that.

Reading

• Embassytown by China Mieville – a gift from Si. At the time I think I joked that it would take me a year to get round to reading it. In fact it took two. It took me a while to get into it but I really enjoyed the concept and was really hooked by the middle. I ran out of interest for the third act though – not sure if that was the book’s failing or my own

Running

• Thursday hills
• Saturday Finsbo parkrun
• Sunday Ally Pally LSR