- A few holidays among colleagues, so it was a nice, quiet week at work.
- I bought a pack of Tim Tams for a slice of nostalgia from my time in Australia/NZ. I think they’re fairly widespread in the UK now, but I hadn’t had one for years. Still better than Penguins.
- I took H over the road to the park early on Saturday morning, where we had the whole football pitch to ourselves. He defeated me 10-5 in an epic end-to-end match. I had no excuses. His fitness and skills now win against my longer legs.
- The local sports club has started a summertime Saturday happy hour at its bar, so we joined some neighbouring friends for a few evening Aperols on the outside tables. Their boys are in H’s class and the children ran themselves happy-tired on the football pitches in the evening sunshine. I then spent a little too much on Deliveroo’d Wagamama for us.
- So many plastic containers to recycle!
- I finished reading How to Stop Time which I quite enjoyed. I now need to either finish reading a couple of other books I’ve previously begun, or declare book bankruptcy.
- TV this week: the new/last series of The Bear and From, and the House of the Dragon. Plus lots of football from the World Cup, although mostly in the form of highlights packages and build-ups. The kick-offs make watching live a challenge, but the excitement is growing now we’re in the knockout stages.
- Talking of which, in the early hours of Monday morning we… didn’t stay up to watch England play Mexico. We chose bed. Instead, we got up at 7am to watch the highlights before school/work without knowing the result. 3-2. A perfect end/start to a week.
