WASHED UP

✅ Made breakfast and packed lunch for Kid A. ✅ Dropped Kid B at nursery 😭. ✅ Dropped Kid B at school. ✅ Collected kids' clothes from store. ✅ Listened to the end of The AbsoluteLee podcast and the start of The Prince of Aberystwyth while sitting in traffic. ✅ ☕ and breakfast. ✅ Prepared chilli con carne. ✅ Work call. ✅ Unblocked bath drain. ✅ Received grocery delivery. ✅ ☕.

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It’s obviously good that David Baddiel has finally apologised in person for his racist abuse of footballer Jason Lee twenty-five years ago. That he did it on his new TV show should boost viewing figures substantially with a helpful knock on effect for sales of his book.

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Five hours sleep is enough for my two and a half year old, for now at least, so he’s sat on my lap chitter-chattering away while eating hot buttered toast and drinking cold milk.

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A NEW INGERLAND

Warming up for Ingerland’s opening match in the World Cup by practising penalties.

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Pizza is in the oven. Can finally sit down and relax for ten minutes.

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I got my 🍕 dough dough risin'. Forgot to say that I feed my yeast with malt extract rather than sugar…

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Proving my yeast, and mixing pasta flour with semolina flour, strong white bread flour, dark rye flour (first time I’ve tried this), salt and olive oil.🍕

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Making pizza today, so defrosting some fresh yeast. Meantime, it’s breakfast. Egg and home fries for me. Weetabix for the little one, and bagel for the big one. Big one is in the bathroom feeling nauseous because of the smell of smoked paprika.

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Wife is eating fish and chips while watching Korean soap on her tablet, while our little one sits on my knee eating chips and watching Sesame Street on TV. Big one is fully immersed in Minecraft.

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Kids did these paintings with Mum this morning while I had a lie-in.

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Early lunch with my little one. Pie, chips and mushy peas!

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Strong smell of tar blowing in from the asphalt plant to the west of us.

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…trying to capture the essence of your life in a form that can be experienced by another, is one of the most interesting technological challenges in the world. Venkatesh Rao

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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

In my work email. As part of our Corporate and Social Responsibility, we are running a digital poverty mission to “Connect The UK”. We have already purchased 40,000 brand new Tactus GeoBook laptops and have donated over £2.5 million in device discounts. These laptops come fully loaded with Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Education, a 3 year warranty and are discounted to just £84 per device. They’re £80 each on Amazon.

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Lock steps and towpath.

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This tree is broken and falling into the water.

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Glad I don’t have to decorate this tree.

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Useful information and advice. Microblogging on the fediverse, leaving twitter to rot? cubicgarden.comIan Forrester https://cubicgarden.com/2022/11/14/microblogging-on-the-fediversemicroblogging-with-mastodon/

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Some beautiful trees at my son’s school.

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I added a few finely chopped and fried onion pieces to my home fries for brunch. Must remember to try using smoked paprika next time.

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Morning from hell, sat in a car for four hours.

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Search the people you follow on Twitter for possible Mastodon/Fediverse accounts. I forgot the link! https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/ Thanks @pruvisto for such a nice tool. Evan Prodromou https://prodromou.pub/users/evan/statuses/109333475701913097

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My eight year old has watched so many US kids' TV shows that he now self-identifies as American.

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THE PRINCE OF ABERYSTWYTH

With the Prince of ActivityPub’s return to the fold, I can sense a #tinap reunion in the air…

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