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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.
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I've just discovered that Android has an option that lets you snooze notifications. You have no idea how happy this makes me.
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So far today, I was woken up at 4am because the children had been playing with an old alarm clock yesterday (I got back over though).

And Sophia hurt her wrist falling off of a swing yesterday and it still hurts this morning so we're off to the Sick Kids at 10am for her to get checked out.

Happy birthday to me!

Edit: No break. Possibly minor sprain. Just needs to take it easy and stay off the monkey bars for a few days.
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Gideon, heading for a recently arrived package, holding a knife "I'm not going to stab *anyone*!"
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I went to the toilet at 4am a few days ago, and bumped into Gideon coming back from a toilet trip. Apparently he just takes himself if he wakes up in the night. No idea how long this has been going on for!

(Sophia comes and gets me, for company.)
andrewducker: (livejournal blackout)
It's Rowling's birthday so I've just donated £25 to Mermaids to support trans kids.
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I'm possibly being dim here, but I can't see what "Recognising Palestine" does for the current humanitarian apocalypse.

(I'm not against it, but the government seem to be presenting it as somehow connected and I feel like I'm missing something.)
andrewducker: (slogans)
It's raining outside and Sophia was looking bored so I suggested she have a dance party

At which point she grabbed her cousin and they've spent the last half an hour decorating the dancefloor and designing tickets.

No dancing has yet occurred.
andrewducker: (Jesus!)
Talked to Sophia about Wicked. Apparently she kinda enjoyed it, but isn't a fan of revisionism and prefers The Wizard of Oz.

"The good people should stay good and the bad people should stay bad."
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The play park we're waiting for a dentist appointment in has WiFi.

(It's got a building in it owned by the council leisure service to sell ice creams and manage the tennis courts next door.)
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Right now (7:30am) it is 14 degrees outside.

It is 24 degrees in our bedroom, despite the windows being open all night. Humidity is 92%.

This afternoon it will rise to 26 degrees. I'm glad the office has air conditioning. I'm not looking forward to tonight.
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As of this morning (2nd of July), we are now closer to 2050 than 2000.
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When I am Emperor anyone selling bowls, plates, etc will have to certify whether you can microwave food in them without them getting hotter than the food.

Is microwave transparency really too much to ask?

All change

Jun. 21st, 2025 11:10 am
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The reason British people talk about the weather all the damn time is that two weeks ago I got hailed on, yesterday was hot enough that I sweated through my clothes, and today there's haar stopping me seeing more than 100m.
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Two weeks after seeing the CGI Lilo and Stitch at the cinema I'm watching the original with the kids. And it's so much better. The direction, the writing, the acting are all just much higher quality.

The remake felt much clumsier. And I don't really understand why.

Edit: Just realised that they entirely cut the Ugly Duckling part from the remake. Why would you do that? It's key to Stitch's arc!
And all of the bits where Lilo how to be like Elvis.

In fact, nearly all of the bits where Lilo talked to Stitch and built a relationship with him.
andrewducker: (calvin dancing)
Companies that email you "Your parcel is on the way!", but it turns out that actually they've just reserved a tracking number and aren't physically sending anything for another day or two.
andrewducker: (Lack of Pants)
The weather is now nice enough that the kids are playing outside.
With the neighbour kids.
And then playing in the house with them.
So I'm hiding in my office from a bunch of a bunch of kids.
This makes me very happy.

(In related news I have ordered a bunch of water pistols and a water sprinkler.)
andrewducker: (sheldon)
Bristol airport security has a queue 40 minutes long and 2 of its 8 security scanners running.
I can only assume that this is to force people to pay to skip the queue.
In any case I'm unimpressed.
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I got a 3 second phone call from unknown number, and robotic female voice said "I want to talk to you, add me on WhatsApp."

I worry about the kind of people who fall for something so transparently scammy.
andrewducker: (Aaaaaardvark)
Sophia: Daddy, what starts with F and finishes with UCK.
Me: Fried Duck?
Sophia: Fire Truck! And you were supposed to say Fuck!
Jane: It's funnier when she explains it.

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