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If you want a picture of the future, imagine me sitting on the sofa trying to read a book with Sophia on my left asking for help with Stardew Valley and Gideon on my right asking for help with Lego Star Wars - for ever.
Posting from the abyssal depths
Dec. 21st, 2025 10:59 am7 days ago was our earliest sunset (15:37)
7 days from now is our latest sunrise (08:44)
Today is our shortest day (6:57:37)
I am looking forward to the return of the light.
7 days from now is our latest sunrise (08:44)
Today is our shortest day (6:57:37)
I am looking forward to the return of the light.
Life with two kids: Christmas monitoring
Dec. 4th, 2025 07:31 amOpening up my YouTube Recap so I can find out what nonsense Gideon has been watching this year.
(Sophia is on her own account, but for technical reasons Gideon can't be yet.)
(Sophia is on her own account, but for technical reasons Gideon can't be yet.)
We have a Spotify family account, so I thought I'd add Sophia to it.
Turns out that because she's under 13 she's incredibly limited in the music she can have access to, and has to be in the special kids app.
So, YouTube for music it is!
(Seriously, they didn't even have the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack. Utterly useless.)
Turns out that because she's under 13 she's incredibly limited in the music she can have access to, and has to be in the special kids app.
So, YouTube for music it is!
(Seriously, they didn't even have the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack. Utterly useless.)
One ping only
Nov. 14th, 2025 02:06 pmI just spent an hour playing "Captain Sonar"
Two teams, each of which are moving their submarin around a map, while trying to work out where their opponent is, keep the ship running, and charge their systems so that they can detect the other team and then torpedo them.
Good fun!
Two teams, each of which are moving their submarin around a map, while trying to work out where their opponent is, keep the ship running, and charge their systems so that they can detect the other team and then torpedo them.
Good fun!
Thoughts on the way home.
Nov. 1st, 2025 05:43 pmGlasgow still feels much more city-like to me than Edinburgh.
Which is probably why I prefer living in Edinburgh.
(Great to visit though)
Which is probably why I prefer living in Edinburgh.
(Great to visit though)
There's research that if you leave people in a room with an electro-shock shock device long enough to get bored they will deliberately shock themselves.
In other news I took Sophia's phone away from the kids while they were in the bath and now they're repeatedly pouring cold water over themselves while shrieking like baboons.
In other news I took Sophia's phone away from the kids while they were in the bath and now they're repeatedly pouring cold water over themselves while shrieking like baboons.
Life with two kids: Their every move
Oct. 20th, 2025 08:15 pmThrough the power of (very basic) smart home automation I now get a notification whenever the kids open the back door, and can then remotely check if they've left it open.
Many parents throughout history would be jealous.
Many parents throughout history would be jealous.
Sophia: "So mummy took a year off from her job when I was born and then she went back?
Incredulously: "And they remembered who she was?"
Incredulously: "And they remembered who she was?"
The Andy finds its own uses for things
Oct. 19th, 2025 10:08 pmI've finally found a use for LinkedIn - it's doing all of the puzzles and then seeing how much better my contacts did.
It would be awesome if I didn't have to have an argument with Gideon about bedtime every single night.
Sophia doesn't do that any more. I wonder at what age he'll grow out of it.
Sophia doesn't do that any more. I wonder at what age he'll grow out of it.
Today I spent £108 on getting myself vaccinated against Flu and Covid.
Which led me to wonder what the cost of days off is to the economy. And how far off we are from it being worth the government vaccinating everyone.
Which led me to wonder what the cost of days off is to the economy. And how far off we are from it being worth the government vaccinating everyone.
It's very educational being me
Sep. 28th, 2025 08:49 pmWays to tell you have a child #37: the contents of your tumble dryer's lint trap is 50% glitter.
(And your hands are now covered in glitter from emptying it)
(And your hands are now covered in glitter from emptying it)
A thing I don't understand about people
Sep. 27th, 2025 08:38 pmWhy do people go to the group "Fans of X" and ask "Is X any good?"
I mean, no, most members of the fan group loathe it with a fiery passion and are only in the group to warn passers-by how terrible it is.
I mean, no, most members of the fan group loathe it with a fiery passion and are only in the group to warn passers-by how terrible it is.
Oddly recurrent stomach issues
Sep. 24th, 2025 07:05 amFacebook reminds me that we had norovirus on this day in 2021 and 2023. Jane has spent the last 24 hours with D+V. What are the odds?
Life with two kids: Old time language
Sep. 9th, 2025 08:19 amYesterday I was having fun with Gideon playing with webcam special effects, and we got to one that looks like old sepia film stock with damage marks on it and judderiness and he delightedly shouted "It's footage!"
Spent the afternoon being serenaded by a cinema full of kids at the K-Pop Demon Hunters sing-a-long.
As musical kids movies about demon-hunting go out was pretty darned good and I expect to be earwormed for weeks.
As musical kids movies about demon-hunting go out was pretty darned good and I expect to be earwormed for weeks.
