For A Friend
There is a laptop on the desk in the junk room - it’s been there since yesterday evening. It belongs to a teaching assistant at the school where my other hal...
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Every Other Day
I seem to have fallen into a pattern of posting to the blog every other day. I’m not sure how it happened, but it does feel less forced. I really don’t lead ...
Distant Friends
I’m not entirely sure why, but I’m always surprised when anybody notices me - particularly if they have discovered me via this blog. I have been writing onli...
Something And Nothing
After a weekend filled with stress, arguments, standing on rugby pitch touchlines, school fundraisers, doing endless chores, and then being accused of doing ...
Back To Earth
After the somewhat epic journey home yesterday, and a pizza and movie night with the children (we watched ‘Justice League’), this morning has very much been ...
The One Where I Almost Missed My Flight
After waking up at 5am, 6am, and 7am this morning, I finally scraped myself out of the hotel bed, stumbled into the shower, and then set about folding clothe...
Last Night
I fly home tomorrow morning. I did a little work this evening, but nothing like the epic slog the last few evenings turned into. You don’t even want to see t...
2Am
I’m sitting in a king size bed, looking out over Frankfurt from the enormous window of my 15th storey hotel room window. The clock is ticking towards 2am. Af...
Tired
I’m wiped out. I scraped myself out of bed at 7am, arrived in the office ay 8:30am, and worked straight through until 5pm. The first two hours of day were st...
To Frankfurt Once More
It’s 9:27am, and I’m sitting in the middle of Terminal 2 at Heathrow airport, London. The taxi transfer arrived at our house precisely when it should this mo...