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It’s been a mad couple of weeks, so it feels like such a long time ago that we gathered for Sunday roasts at The Stuffed Walrus with our NCT crowd.

Welcome to California!

I probably hold more than my fair share of unpopular opinions, but perhaps my most egregiously unpopular opinion is about PE, and specifically how PE teachers should divide a class into two teams.

Swinging into the blog eventually In a disastrous chronological mishap, my last post completely left out a family trip to Kelsey Park in Beckenham one Saturday afternoon.

I am half-watching the World Cup final as I write this, honest.

My last post concluded with the surprise weekend trip I organised to the Isle of Wight for Randi’s birthday, but the honest truth is that this was always a bit of a knock-off of Randi’s idea, who had already booked a surprise weekend trip to [mystery loca…

Over the late May bank holiday we travelled down to Exmouth for my mum’s birthday, and although we didn’t quite make it onto the beach itself, we were all very much in the market for some sunny, seaside vibes.

We’re back!

Happy 22nd birthday, blog!

If you’re skimming this post only for the baby news, the big update in the last few weeks is that we’ve started weaning!

Last year, as you may recall, I picked up German citizenship.

A couple of weekends back, Randi and I were honoured to be invited to my cousin Alix’s big birthday weekend bash in a house in the countryside near Bath.

At the risk of being annoyingly vague, it’s been a really terrible few weeks for a couple of people close to us.

On the flight to Chicago Happy new year!

Annual Roundup Hanging out in the very early days No prizes for guessing that ‘having a child’ is my dominant theme of 2025.

Hello from Chicago!

Like the stock market bubble, the expected implosion of my reading total was staved off this year.

Before I begin: yesterday my Grandma died overnight at the age of 93.

Time for a few more of baby’s first… …trains!

It makes me very, very happy to say that our baby son was born at 3.03am on Wednesday 1st October.

Moving day!

The view over the river from Battersea Power Station As we’ve gotten closer to the baby’s due date, it’s increasingly the case that any social events with friends and family have been subtly (or not-so-subtly) redirected to ours rather than going out.