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Life Σσ was trained and ready to do a swim off the Arran coast but it was cancelled due to high winds.

Life We had an AI-driven design sprint at work that was on the one hand hugely productive – we (a team of < 10) built, tested, and iterated on three prototypes in the space of four days – but on the other hand I found it far less rewarding than I feel like

Life Ηη went back to school on Thursday.

Life The cat escaped onto the roof and gave us a good scare.

Life I built a bunk bed.

Life Ηη ran headlong into a zip line platform on Monday and split his eyebrow open necessitating a trip to A&E.

Life Survived work till Thursday.

Life The commentator’s curse hit hard and Ηη shat himself three days on the bounce.

Life I had my toe x-rayed and nothing showed up.

Life The Weaver line wasn’t running for most of the week because of a line-side fire last Sunday.

Life Me Σσ and Αα went to watch Ηη’s sports day where he retained his title as undisputed king of the sack race.

Life The Black Dog came for me.

Life Yes, it was hot.

Life The low point of the week was the builder laying the bathroom floor tiles without checking with us how we wanted them.

Life The cat chilled out a bit after a few days and didn’t inflict any more damage on the kids.

Life Robbo invited us over to stay in their Islington palace for the week.

Life We got back from Scotland remarkably easily (having been emotionally primed for Bank Holiday Travel Chaos™).

Life The commute with the kids has been a lot.

Life Most of the week was spent packing up more of the flat and getting prepped for a move to The Frozen North (Highams Park).

Life We took the train up to Bev after school on Friday.

Life Got a last-minute invite to an all staff agenda-less meeting which is never what anyone wants.

Life I spent all of Monday watching telly with my feet up.

Life I ate so many carbs I had a consistent mild headache for a lot of the week.

Life We drove to Beverley on Monday.’Nobody puked’ is the most positive spin you could put on the journey.

Life I continue to find Ηη’s moods completely unplayable.

Life It was a firebreak week at work which meant I got to try out the css anchor positioning module and the popover api in an attempt to rid ourselves of PopperJS.

Life Σσ went to Paris for a family ladies weekend jolly leaving me having to fork out for a childminder in order to go for a long run – the most expensive run I’ve ever been on.

Life I went to Brighton for Web Day Out which was excellent.

Life Had a party for Ηη in Finsbo at his request.

Life Ηη got what sounds like it’s probably croup on Friday.

Life Ηη went willingly once more to ‘Simon’s sports camp’ and came home each evening impressively exhausted.

Life We caught up with Si and Lou at the Great Northern Railway Tavern in Hornsey, a pub selected on the basis that it provides a free and staffed arts-and-crafts table for kids.

Life The highlight of the week was taking the kids to The Emirates to see Arsenal Women play Man City Women (Woman City?).

Life I can’t believe my baby girl is three years old.

Life We palmed the kids off on Jim and Ange for the weekend and hot-footed it up to Edinburgh for our first break without them since before Αα was born (nigh on three years ago).

Life Ηη’s continued inability to understand when he needs the toilet is now apparently interfering with his school life.

Life We dragged the Christmas tree out and seemingly wound up with more pine needles on the floor than were ever on its branches.

Life Ηη continued to turn triumph into disaster at every available opportunity.

Life We took the kids to Skate at Somerset House at 9am on Tuesday.

Life I continue to be impressed by how tightly synced my mood is to the evacuation schedule/location of my firstborn’s bowels.

Life I started my first block of shared parental leave on Friday.

Life Arriving back from Paris neither of us had anything left in the tank to deal with baby girl’s screaming.

Life This was the week parental leave felt like it kicked in properly and I was finally disconnected from work.

Life To think we used to find anything difficult Bae Departed Gatwick for Crete two hours late, but it was raining for take-off, which is the ideal holiday schadenfreude.

Life The rest of the holiday continued to be broadly excellent.

Life Back to work after a month off.

Life Highlight(?)

Life Little man had his 4-in-1 pre-school vaccination and it has torn through his guts (and by extension, several pairs of his underpants) with a merciless intensity.

Life I had a drink on NYE – felt like I needed to keep my hand in.

Life The week has mostly been an attritional battle with the little man, trying to convince him to only eat soft food cut into tiny pieces on account of him having smashed his teeth in last week.