Very cool, if true

Labour just announced they want to end the pensions triple lock, and move it to a double lock - raising pensions each by the highest of inflation and 2.5%, and dropping the wage growth factor.

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Something is killing the children.

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We have noticed that all children younger than ours are cute little sweeties and all children older than ours are practically grown-ups with their own stock portfolios. comments

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Gideon and Sophia's school photos came out well.

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The kids have discovered Pokémon Go and so I've spent about half an hour of today shepherding them around the local area while they squeak excitedly at each other about what they've discovered. comments

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This child has either had a run in with a serial killer or she's had far too much fun with the blackberries she's found.

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When I find out who taught my children how to be sarcastic they're in big trouble. comments

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1. 300th anniversary of the Edinburgh man who discovered deep time (tags:prehistory edinburgh time history ) 2.

I watched a video about lifespan, which talked about two myths - first that we used to have a really low lifespan where everyone used to die in our 40s, and secondly that actually there was a lot of child mortality, but then we were *fine* after that.

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Yesterday: lying on the sofa feeling sick watching season 8 of Rick and Morty.

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Sick on the sofa and finally catching up with season 8 of Rick and Morty.

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Sometimes YouTube recommends a video to me that looks plausibly interesting, but with a clickbait title and a fair possibility that it's one simple point spread pointlessly across 5 minutes of video.

You can tell it's autumn, the heating just turned itself on for the first time in 6 months.

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What, exactly, do you mean by "monkeying around" dad?

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Anyone care to guess how old Gideon is?

Today we had a kids birthday party in our house for the first time since Covid. 10 of them, mostly 5-6 year-olds.

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Apparently someone in this house is very very old.