Big kid singing at the Royal Albert Hall tonight!

It’s been a very noisy and smelly morning. Reversing forklifts, car alarms, barking dog, pneumatic drill. Now it’s the fucking ice cream man doing his rounds (mate, the kids are all at school). To top it all off, we had the delightful petroleum aroma of our local asphalt recycling plant drifting in on the prevailing wind.

Eight days later and I’m logged into the shiny new work bank account, pension account and password account with all passwords restored.

Now, what did I do with my kids?

So far today I’m locked out of the new work bank account and the old work pensions account, and then I “upgraded” to the shiny new password manager web app and - hey presto! - lost all my passwords. Not sure it’s safe for me to go and pick up the kids today.

Exploited child labour this evening to harvest two bags of potatoes.

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Big kid insisted that the “butt potato” take pride of place in the group photo.

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Disappointingly small crop, but they are really tasty.

Brick 📷

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So far today I’m locked out of the new work bank account and the old work pensions account, and then I “upgraded” to the shiny new password manager web app and - hey presto! - lost all my passwords. Not sure it’s safe for me to go and pick up the kids today.

Probably not going to see much more of big kid today. Switch 📷

A person is holding a Nintendo Switch console with red and blue Joy-Con controllers.

A bit of nostalgia and one for the Pacific Wave Appreciation folks.

A person wearing a hat is running along a sandy beach as waves crash near the shoreline, with houses and hills in the background.

These trees outside our home provide beautiful cover for the ugly industrial warehouse they built shortly after we bought our flat. They make up for the loss of horizon view (in reality a derelict wasteland) making our close cozy and private. They provide shelter from the afternoon sun in summer allowing the kids to play outside freely.

Big kid decided each tree symbolises one of us, according to size. That’s me on the right. My neighbour wants to have me chopped down because I leave a mess on her car when she parks underneath.

Occasionally I like to lie on a blanket in our communal garden and just watch the trees swaying in the wind. During lockdown it was incredibly peaceful and calming watching the trees and the birds - crows, parakeets, pigeons, starlings, magpies, and red kites, geese and egrets flying by overhead.

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Bertie’s ice cream van shut up shop at six on the dot leaving my little lad, who was next in line, without an ice cream.