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Life Went for pizza with Caroline, Alex, and Luc on Tuesday evening.

Life 2025-01-hipster.jpg Look at this insufferable hipster A fairly low-key week that culminated in me getting mildly unwell and Ηη (along with seemingly everyone else in his class) picking up some unspecified winter bug that wiped him clean out for the w…

Life Ηη made it as far as Forest School on Tuesday (accompanied by Σσ volunteering) before we concluded he still wasn’t well enough to be at school.

Life The kids began to get better.

Life Can’t remember.

Life Half term.

Life We went to a family learning session where Ηη’s teacher modelled some typical class stuff.

Life Our baby boy turned five.

Life Ηη wanted to be on his new bike every second of every day and I was there for it.

Life I helped out with Forest school on Tuesday and got to see Ηη larking about, barely paying a shred of attention to his teachers, and generally being exactly himself, but in a wooded area and ignoring a different set of authority figures than me and Σσ.

Life Ηη got two cardigans to wear to school.

Life Why are you two so old and so small?

Life We had our first proper taste of the chaos of surviving school holidays while being at work.

Life We came to see Aila.

Life We got the train home on Tuesday as it was an inset day allowing us to escape the perils of bank holiday travel.

Life Drove home from the lakes on Monday and miraculously the kids both slept before they had a chance to puke.

Life We stayed in London because we’re all sick.

Life Caught up with old We Are Friday pals on Tuesday (something Siri struggled with).

Life I babysat for Mark and George on Monday evening.

Life Went for a run with Σσ for the first time in more than five years.

Life A week in which Σσ and I have come close to the end of our respective tethers with Ηη.

Life Ηη crossed the threshold required to enjoy a balance bike and has gone from never wanting to even look at it to wanting to go on it everywhere all the time.

Life Σσ and I took Monday off (to stop us from completely breaking).

Life I think it was to our credit that we kept the half-term activities suitably tedious and Ηη wasn’t even remotely upset about going back to school.

Life Half term.

Life Kika came to visit because of an inset day at Αα’s nursery.

Life We sacked off soft play on Friday in favour of Tate Modern.

Life Ηη has discovered Shakira so we’ve been listening to a lot of Shakira.

Life Ηη was sent home from school not to return for 48 hours because of a loosey.

Life Survived another week flying solo with the kids.

Life Σσ was with Ailita in Glasgow for the week.

Life Went to a funeral on Tuesday.

Life We got a message from nursery asking us to pick up the kids early because the far-right were rumoured to be planning something in the area.

Life Αα started in a new room at nursery and seems largely to have taken it in her stride.

Life Went shopping for a kitchen, flooring, and tiling on my birthday.

Life I traded in a 27mm lens (a bit too middle-of-the-road focal-length) for a manual 23mm – I’m fairly sure I’m now going to get off the camera gear merry-go-round for a good spell (with the possible exception of one of these straps).

I think Pickford is my spirit animal Bae Life A week of vo(mi)ting.

Life Camping in a field somewhere near Swindon for a pal’s 40th on Saturday.

Life On leaving nursery in a flap on Wednesday I forgot to strap baby girl into the buggy and tipped her out face first onto the pavement.

Life A mercifully calm week (in relative terms).

Life Mr Sunak announced an election and bae correctly predicted this would spell disaster for her Islington North campaign hopes.

Life Thursday evening rolled around.

Life On a bit of a comedown from an excellent weekend in The Lakes and generally feeling like a massive imposter at work.

Life Late to press because I was having too much fun in the Lake District with Glasgow University pals on the bank holiday weekend.

Life Spoke to our architect about ‘Stage 02’ and sounds like we might have to start making actual decisions any day now.

Life I’ve just spent three days at a 40th birthday in Center Parcs (stupid spelling).

Life The kids have successfully shared a room for a week and things haven’t been noticeably worse than they were before sleep-wise.

Life We put the kids in a room together at Gangan and Baba’s.

Life I can’t remember what has happened.

Life I have generally been feeling slightly rough.