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12.01 – 12.07
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Sun Dec 07 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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2025-12-15T21:01:27Z
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Life

I felt a bit rough. Probably got a bit of whatever Αα has. We took her to the doc again and the conclusion is that she just has a cough and a sore throat. Hopefully that is true (although she wasn’t happy that she wouldn’t be getting any medicine).

I bought the kids what I thought were chocolate advent calendars but turned out to be craft ones that are filled with stuff like stickers and pencils. Regardless of the fact they have ultimately been demonstrably far more interested in them than anything else, the initial disappointment meant I had to buy more actual chocolate calendars and then we received two in the post from friends so it’s an orgy of advent around ours.

Ηη had a year 1 assembly which was very cute. He said a few lines and paraded his extroverted side (his only side?) with aplomb. Me and Αα thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We also learned that Ηη is going to be playing the part of Charles Dickens in the Christmas show (“you know, the guy with the blue face”). Fairly sure that will be hilarious.

We went to Nando’s for the second time in my life after we’d been to soft play with the Robinsons and Popes. I don’t know why I thought it might be anything other than shit but I was still impressed at just how shit it was. Perhaps it’s a different story if you like chicken. But I doubt it.

Reading

Dream count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichoe – unremittingly bleak for the most part

Running

I genuinely thought the marathon was getting away from me because of the pain in my foot and ankle, and was moping about the house being a fairly miserable sod about it. But after a long run on Sunday the pain has all but evaporated and I’m feeling fairly daft about the fact it was maybe just a bad cramp. Haven’t even started the marathon block training and I’m already far too paranoid about everything apparently.