I’m about to carry a bag of sand.

A bag of sand about to be carried.

Big announcement* planned for tomorrow for #tinap aficionados.

*Not a podcast.

Personalised alarm call at 6:30 this morning as my little kid puked on my back.

Morning walk, ostensibly to source the kids’ favourite ice lollies. Mission unaccomplished.

Photo of trees lining a local street in Southall Green, on a very warm Sunday morning Photo of a car parked outside a garage displaying a handwritten "No Parking" sign in Southall Green. The front of the car is missing.Photo of trees lining a local street in Southall Green, on a very warm Sunday morning

Enjoyed plenty of sun and relatively fresh air in our communal garden today. Kids enjoyed the beach tent, but the paddling pool kept deflating (not that we had access to any water to fill it). Cleaned out our tiny “shed”, and put up wooden blinds in the bedroom as well!

View of our communal garden in early evening sunshine with beach tent set up at the far end.

Three year old playing Scrabble for the first time. First word he tries to spell is his brother Zion’s name.

Three year old hands placing Scrabble pieces spelling "oizn"

Little kid turned on his Amazon Fire “Kids” tablet.

A game asks him to enter his date of birth to play.

He types in “1234”, et voilà!

This is why I’m always frothing at the mouth.

Based on [residents’] feedback, Ealing Council has drawn up a list of ideas to reduce congestion and to make walking, cycling and using public transport easier in Southall.

There are links to the survey results and to a new survey.

Adam Curtis (1984), The Great British Housing Disaster, on how local councils dealt with unsafe new housing developments.

“Privately, they know that their tenants are at risk, but publicly they have to try to defend the decision to leave them…”