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Life Yesterday, bae went early to Birmingham for a course, only returning once the kids were asleep.

Life “I FUCKING HATE HIM”, was the message I composed to bae after having to carry the little man home, kicking and screaming, for the nth time.

Life We have kept baby girl alive for a year.

Life Baby girl got sick on day one of nursery and has remained worryingly poorly since.

Life A week to forget.

Life Bae’s parents stuck around till Wednesday to look after baby girl.

Life I have to accept that this feeling of creeping existential dread and mild nausea is, in fact, a hangover.

Life I was relieved to find that what I’d initially believed to be a hangover last Sunday turned out to be some manner of sickness instead.

Life Looking forward to some clean living after a boozy week combined with not nearly enough sleep.

Life Started the week with a very short fuse.

Life As predicted, whatever virus it was that chose to attack me on day one of the holiday was no match for the Cretan heat and I was feeling remarkably well again by day two.

Life We spent Monday on a train for Σσ’s 40th.

Life Ηη started at school and seems to be settling in ok – definitely much better than we feared (with just cause given his absolutely dog-shit record at nursery drop-off pretty much throughout).

Life I took Αα to the transport museum on Friday.

Life Got Bluey back from her MOT.

Life Aila is recently an outpatient but had to go back into hospital in apparently fairly dramatic fashion.

Life Σσ is seriously overworked with little sign of it abating any time soon.

Life Potty training Αα and she appears to have got the hang of it by day three.

Life Ηη didn’t love having to go back to school but he got into the swing of it fairly quick.

Life I booked an injury diagnosis and rehab session at London Met Uni which felt like a minor overreaction but then my hips kept hurting so I think it’s probs the right thing to have done.

Life I went for an injury diagnosis and rehab session at London Met Uni on Monday.

Life Caught up with Andy P (Andy P!

Life One of Ηη’s pals had a party at the splashpad on Sunday morning.

Life We went to Ηη’s sports day.

Life The summer holidays started in earnest.

Life After what feels like several weeks (perhaps months) of feeling almost dead, I now finally feel unequivocally fully dead.

Life On Monday we took a bus into the old town.

Life Ηη went back to school on Wednesday.

Life I pushed through a charity shop clear out of a heap of almost-never-played-with toys and felt pretty good about it.

Life The ops were a success.

Life I saw a picture of Aila walking outside the hospital without wires coming out of her and I started weeping.

Life Σσ went to a conference in Manchester and aunt Kika came to visit.

Life A builder who seemed like he knew what he was talking about came to take a look at our flat.

Life What was billed as a three day vibe-coding hackathon arrived unbidden in my calendar, immediately filling we with existential dread.

Life Σσ has got far too much on but I don’t think there’s anything anyone can do about it.

Life Σσ is still fighting tooth and nail to get a result from government ahead of the budget.

Life Met the builders.

Life We went to see Ηη absolutely smash his role as Charles Dickens in an abridged (but not nearly abridged enough) version of A Christmas Carol.

Life The week started badly with me basically getting having to wrestle Αα back into her cot in the middle of the night while she screamed for ages.

Life The autumn budget was announced with the confirmation that they’re going to fully scrap the two child limit on universal credit.

Life I felt a bit rough.

Life The ever-tenacious Andy P brought the ex-Friday team together for our annual night out in Farringdon (not a particularly convenient location for anyone, it turns out).

Life Αα got a wheezy cough early in the week and we took both kids to the doc because we’re on a hair trigger.

Life Αα has taken to reminding us what really bad sleep looks like.

Life The GP signed me up for a battery of blood tests to see if anything’s up.

Life I went to see the GP with a persistent headache and nausea on Monday.

Life We continued to feel exhausted and didn’t fancy taking our sickness up to Scotland so found an assortment of ‘fun’ activities to do in London and its environs: Assaulted the knot in Ηη’s hair (which took the best part of a day) Went to the pirate ship

Life I took my birthday day off and went out for breakfast with Σσ and Αα.

Life Cheerio 2024, don’t haste ye back ya total prick.

Life Ηη went back to school, Αα went back to nursery, I went back to work, and I have immediately forgotten almost everything else that happened in the week.