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We paid for our very overgrown hedges to be cut back and shaped. It’s not cheap, but the garden instantly looks smarter. It...
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The World Cup is here and I am loving the wall-to-wall football. The scheduling of the matches isn’t ideal for our timezone,...
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It’s been a less hectic week after our Disneyland holiday. The boys had an INSET day on Friday, so L drove them to her...
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We spent a wonderful half-term week at Disneyland Paris, staying in the nearby Davy Crockett Ranch with my parents.
It was...
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Look, this weeknote is unapologetically dominated by Arsenal winning their first Premier League in 22 years. I completely...
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I was in the City on Thursday evening for a tech event. I first had to navigate my way through the rabbit warren behind...
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Monday was a bank holiday: a welcome four-day work week.
I took the boys to see the Super Mario Galaxy Movie at the local...
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For L’s birthday in February I bought her outdoor string lights for the garden. This weekend her festoon poles arrived so we...
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I’ve been taking Cetirizine for several years to combat hay fever/allergies, but I was starting to doubt its effectiveness....
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I joined a CTO Craft mixer event at Tessl’s Kings Cross office for Guy Podjarny’s talk on agentic engineering at scale. It...
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The sun came out on Wednesday, the temperature reached over 23C and I had to find some shorts for the day. And then summer...
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I had a quiet Easter Holidays house for a few nights this week while L and the boys visited her parents.
Why I use initials...
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I took C to his piano lesson for the first time at a local piano teacher’s home. He’s really progressing well. He only...
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I was almost run over this week on a lunchtime walk around the village. A car turned into the side road I was halfway across...
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I picked up my two new pairs of reading glasses from Boots. I now have glasses by my bed and on my desk. I can manage fine...
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We had some warm evenings this week, so local homes had their windows open to let in some fresh air. Unfortunately, some...
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I heard more squeaking in the walls of my garden office. I put down a couple of traps in the air gap underneath, and within...
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I woke up on Monday morning in a Premier Inn family room in Portsmouth. We had stayed overnight (see last week) and it was...
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My car is back from the bodyshop at long last. I’ve missed it.
This week I had my annual three-day run of Valentine’s Day...
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Will the rain ever end?
A few sniffles and coughs in the house this week which I inevitably caught, so I was...
