We took YB to a school-friend's 10th birthday party today. It was a pool party and a bunch of the parents hung around while the kids swam, nattering about how our babies are growing up. A mixture of breast buds, leg hair, puppy feet, desire for increased independence coupled with a complete inability to make a sandwich or get dressed without ( Read more... )

My hair goes on a three-month cycle:
Month one - cut hair
Month two - colour hair
Month three - enjoy colour.

I got a bit out of sequence but finally got around to colouring.


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Yesterday I finished a shawl: first finished project of the year.


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Me: You are soft. The cat's sleeping in your corner of the settee so you're sitting next to him. I'd've moved him.
OB: I thought about moving him but then I thought nah.
OB: then I thought about moving this stuff and sitting closer to you.
Me: but then you thought nah.
OB: Yeah.
OB: NO!

Mum had a GP appointment today. Yes, on a Saturday. With our lovely Muslim GP. A few weeks ago he went to her house for a consultation, which was lovely and unexpected. Today he was very careful to confirm with Mum that she was okay with us staying I the room, and equally carefully wrote our names down for his records. He went through her drugs, ( Read more... )

I got baby cuddles today! Adam's wife had a tiny 2kg baby in December and he was in charge of her today. He knows who rules at work so brought baby R to my office so I could have a go. Sensible chap.

This evening was a Warhammer night, so I had a good long bath with Sara Cox's 80s show from Saturday! having a nostalgia I kick.

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There's something cheering about leaving the house as daybreaks, and walking to work in daylight - even cloudy, rainy daylight is still daylight. It's pretty much similar but in reverse on the way home: daylight when I leave the office, luminous twilight as I get off the train allowing me to watch the stars start to appear on the short walk home ( ( Read more... )

YB has to talk at cubs tomorrow about "someone who has done something good or achieved something". We knew about this a few weeks ago but all forgot, so in view of the lack of time, OldBloke suggested writing about Lewis Hamilton, as the first Black F1 driver. YB was reluctant, so I suggested he write about his great-great grandmother the ( Read more... )

We had interviews today. Five candidates, so five presentations in the morning and then the interviews in the afternoon. This makes my day fraught with panic from turning the data projector on at 08:30 (ohgodohgod why won't it bloody turn on?) to the point when I get to turn everything off after the decision-making, at 17:15 (ohgodohgod did they ( Read more... )

Just a lovely chat with Mum's sister Dorothy. She's 73 and was diagnosed with cancer last year. There isn't a lot that can be done - there are lesions on the pancreas, but they don't warrant treatment at the moment (side effects would outweigh benefits), but they've just found one on her liver so there may be chemo, she'll find out in May (the gaps ( Read more... )