An Unexpected Surprise
After getting in from work last night, I dropped my bag, and wandered past my other half to the kitchen sink to begin washing up - picking up cups, plates an...
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Adventure Awaits
At some point after dinner last night I pulled the “Dungeons and Dragons” starter set out of my work backpack, and asked the kids if they would be interested...
Rogue One
We finally got to the cinema to watch Rogue One last night. As always when we all go, it was quite an effort - not least because my other half bumped into a ...
Boots Of Infinite Striding
I have a confession to make. I never played “Dungeons and Dragons” when I was younger. Meeting me as an adult, you might suspect otherwise - I own or have ow...
Be Careful What You Wish For
You know there’s an old saying about being careful what you wish for? I distinctly remember writing a post in the blog about my life becoming increasingly mu...
How I Met Your Mother
Given that everybody gets a free pass to be as sentimental as they want in a personal blog, and that I have just read a wonderful blog post about meeting peo...
Grease Is The Word
This evening started as something of a madcap race against time - to get home, eat dinner, wash up, and then head out to our middle daughter’s school to watc...
Anyone For Weiqi
Our eldest daughter is being taught Japanese at the school she visits twice a week, I think mainly because an insightful teacher realised it would be an “in”...
Distracted By Red Dwarf
I’m not sure why, but I’ve struggled to find anything of consequence to write about for the last few days. Normally I can be relied upon to spout hundreds of...
Moleskines Filofaxes And Pencil Cases
While wandering around the stationers in town with our eldest daughter this morning, helping her choose Christmas presents for relatives, I spotted the rack ...