Oops! Forgot to buy Yorkshires and had to make my own (for the first time).

Looks all right!

Home made Yorkshire pudding in a small black bread tin

Plan for tomorrow:

🥕 Prepare and cook veggies for xmas lunch
🍿 Watch Sonic 3 with kids at cinema
🛏️ Get kids off to bed and sleep early (haha)
🎅 Get my Santa outfit on and deliver presents (which this year are already wrapped)

Big kid has been enjoying CrossFit exercises at school and at home.

Big kid: “Hey Google! What’s an air squat?”

Google: “An escort is a call girl or a prostitute….”

Me: “Hey Google! STOP!!!”

After numerous attempts at therapising my toaster (“WTF is wrong with you, you stupid machine!”) I realised that it was too depressed to talk.

I put myself in the toaster’s shoes and realised it was burnt out. It was full of crumbs (golden memories of bagels, crumpets, muffins and waffles past). Attempted arson was simply its way of communicating that it couldn’t take any more.

I unreservedly apologise to my toaster for this gross defamation.

Toast in the Machine davidmarsden.info

United losing 3-0 at home to Bournemouth with an hour gone.

Bring back baldie!

Ten months on and bath night is getting easier.

Now all I have to do is say, “Who’s going to get in Eli’s bath first? Will it be Eli? Or will it be Dad?”

Quick as a flash he’s stripped and running to the bathroom to beat me.

Xmas in Little India.

A house is decorated with blue string lights hanging from the porch at night.A brightly lit star decoration is displayed in the window of an upper floor of a house at night, surrounded by other festive lights and decor.A corner building with bright neon lights and the name "The Scotsman" my local pub, photographed at night.A house is decorated with colorful LED lights illuminating the windows at night.

A shame we only get to choose one.

A community voting announcement invites Southall residents to choose a priority from various options, including clean environment, safety, job opportunities, facilities, development, pedestrian areas, community life, and cost of living.

“…Netanyahu said the move was necessary because a “new front” had opened up on Israel’s border with Syria after the fall of the Assad regime to an Islamist-led rebel alliance.”

How (in)convenient.

Israel plans to expand Golan settlements after fall of Assad bbc.com

Cricket match well underway in my local park at 9:30 this morning.

A vast open field with scattered trees under a clear blue sky.A group of people are playing cricket in a grassy park surrounded by leafless trees under a blue sky.