Our little tree now has lights.

Kids were excited but chilling out now to carols.

A decorated Christmas tree is illuminated with colorful lights and topped with a glowing star, set against a background that includes an alphabet chart and a few framed photos.

I knew where this is before clicking through.

Revealed: Britain's worklessness capital where more than half of adults claim benefits - headline in The Telegraph

Some more pizza prep and cooked pics. 🍕🍕🍕

Pizza preparation setup with dough, cheese, sauces, and toppings on a polka dot tablecloth.Pizza doughs with tomato sauce are prepared on plates and trays, surrounded by various toppings and ingredients on a polka dot tablecloth.Pizza doughs with tomato sauce are prepared on plates and trays, surrounded by various toppings and ingredients on a polka dot tablecloth.A colorful homemade pizza is topped with fresh spinach, sliced onions, cherry tomatoes, yellow bell peppers, and dollops of ricotta cheese.A colorful homemade pizza is topped with cheese, spinach, onions, cherry tomatoes, jalapeños, and dollops of white cheese or cream with herbs.Two types of pizza, one cut into rectangular slices and the other into triangular slices, are placed on separate wooden boards.A homemade pizza topped with spinach, cherry tomatoes, onion slices, and dollops of cheese is displayed on a wooden board.

Boys are having so much fun on a Portal call with their “Papa” (my Dad, their Grandad).

Making pizza.

Dough has risen once, now going back under the cling film to rise again.

Used wholemeal bread flour as I didn’t have any of my usual white. Didn’t use as much semolina flour as usual, either, but what was leftover. Mainly pasta flour and some white rye.

Salt, sugar, honey, olive oil all added to the mix (along with yeast and hand hot water, obvs).

A round ball of dough rests in a mixing bowl, showing some surface cracks.

Kids decorated our little xmas tree, but I left the batteries in the lights all year, so they’re ruined.

I think I might have binned the star lights I usually hang in the window - a relief as they cause a disproportionate amount of stress untangling and hanging them.

“Volcano with exploding baked bean and cheese lava” for lunch.

Big kid is getting one of his five a day.

Little kid not interested (despite his love of volcanoes, lava and baked beans).

A baked potato topped with baked beans and melted cheese is served on a plate.

Breathing calmed down so went for a short walk to the corner shop with Kid A where he bought a can of baked beans with his own cash.

Then we walked around the long block talking about how those beans are now his beans, what would happen to the beans if I reimbursed him with a bank transfer, what he could do with a bottomless backpack, the striking similarity between the Chinese lion adorning a neighbour’s drive wall and the Chinese lions outside the Chinese restaurant in Spilsby, and how Lime bikes are taking over the world.

Breathless!

A million housewives every day
Pick up a can of beans and say
“What an amazing example of
Synchronisation!”

Or in my case, “£1.59?! What a rip-off!”

A stone sculpture depicts a traditional guardian lion holding a decorative orb outdoors.A person wearing a bandana and graphic t-shirt is playfully sitting on a stone lion statue.

Retreated to the relative safety of the bedroom where I’m finding solace with Radiohead and OK Computer on a loop.

An airbag saved my life

Wife wants to know what I think about the Assisted Dying Bill.

She’s strongly in favour: “It can’t come soon enough for some people,” she says.