Little kid fell asleep on my lap, as usual, watching videos of planets and being at one with the Universe.

This morning he exclaimed:

“Dad! You’re so… wide!”

Last night big kid fell asleep in his bed while wearing in-ear buds, ear defender “headphones” and an elasticated eye mask. Apparently he was “trying to be at one with myself”.

I ripped them all off him before I went to bed.

This morning he complained:

“Dad! Why didn’t you just wake me up?!?!”

That’s a clutter of cats.

Love the light of the setting sun on this tree.

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On the chicken, er, I mean school run earlier.

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Back home early from work after second meeting had been cancelled without anyone telling anyone else. So we were all sat there like lemons for twenty minutes until someone asked if we were going to get started. 🤦‍♂️

Oh, and printed a couple of things I’ll need later on our new home printer - only to discover the kids have used up all the colour already printing off photos of planets.

I could use the printer at work, but it’s almost certain not to work when I actually need it to work.

Spent the morning going over the AI’s homework that I assigned it last week, correcting it and filling in the gaps. Still quicker than doing it myself? Not sure, although I found its formatting helpful to follow, and that surely saved me some time.

Virtual meeting completed eventually after the organiser (initially) and my boss (all together) failed to appear.

Quick lunch and out for two back-to-back in-person meetings (likely with all the same people).

Not on our side.

So now we have it. Rachel Reeves's claim that a third runway at Heathrow Airport would boost economic growth comes from a report commissioned by .... Heathrow Airport. Instead of acting in the national interest, she's channelling corporate lobbyists. [www.theguardian.com/environme...](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/01/ree...) bsky.app

Is Trump doing a Truss and will “the deep state” intervene?

Trump’s nightmare 2025 is going as I predicted taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/0 Trump is dragging financial markets down - and people in the US, from the MAGA to Trump's donors - are not going to like that.