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.

My kids (and I) want to know why there’s a potato waffle in the beach information section of this noticeboard.

A beach information sign at Anthony's Bank warns of the absence of lifeguard services and provides safety instructions.

Earlier this week, I updated my crime report online to say that my son’s scooter had been returned.

This morning, I received a wake up call to ask if I was still expecting a police visit.

“Yes, sort of, because that’s what we arranged, but I did update my report to say my son’s scooter had been returned. I don’t want to waste police time.”

Oh, we’ll check the report then and see what it says.

A fittingly very disappointing end to a very disappointing season. Congratulations to Spurs and Ed Morgan.

I thought United started well enough, but in the end the decision to start both Mount and Fernandes cost us. Bruno is surely more effective in Mount’s role tonight, and it was Bruno’s mistake that led to Spurs' goal on the break. An extra defensive midfielder might have stopped the break, and it seems a strange decision to leave Casemiro as a lone DM after everything this season - his form and pace against PL opposition, and Amorim’s cast iron belief in his system. Now we’re chasing the game in the second half when it would have been advantageous to bring on a fresh Mason Mount. Only consolation is that Spurs have generally been even worse than United throughout the season, so there’s still hope.

My morning walks back from dropping my kids off at school are usually relaxing. Not this morning. I was on edge with the nearby presence of our local elected racist doing his rounds.