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.

Breathless again. Ffs.

I bought an acupressure mat (bed of “nails”) a couple of months ago to help with back pain, relaxation and hopefully to help give me a bit more energy.

I used it for half an hour or so a couple of times a week, while listening to music, and it helped with all of those things.

I hadn’t used it for a month, though, due to not feeling well with one thing and another.

Today I fell into a deep sleep after half an hour on it and had to crawl into bed for another ninety minutes. Still feeling groggy.

I celebrated Thanksgiving only once in my life, and it was certainly memorable.