Wrote a short piece ostensibly about the entirety of human experience but actually about one particular anxiety markstaylor.uk/fiction/2023/03/a-quick-look-back
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There can be few greater delights than your son bursting into the room and saying ‘Daddy! Daddy! Can you be Fezzik?’
I made a Tonies/Yoto-style children’s story player for my son. I am pretty pleased with myself (and he thinks it’s basically fine) https://markstaylor.uk/blog/2023/03/building-a-childrens-storybook-reader
Automating a task in the full knowledge that it probably won’t be quicker, but it will mean the time is spent doing something not completely mindless.
Loved this month’s Stories of our Lives discussion on ‘Rainy Days’, a theme drip-dropping with associations literal, literary, metaphorical and musical. Wonderful as always to read the writing it provoked: storiesofourlivesnow.org/2023/02/18/rainy-days/
Went to the gym and fixed my bike on the same day and now I don’t know if I’ve got tired legs or a fucked-up bike.
My son has decided that today is everyone’s birthday. Happy birthday everyone! (You still get your normal birthday; apologies to those whose normal birthday is today.)
Just seen an emergency pull cord in an accessible toilet that was not only tied up, it was tied to the fold-down support rail so that folding the rail down would activate the alarm. I wish I was surprised.
Things could have been so different if only all the king’s horses or all the king’s men had had access to hot glue.
My son is explaining the difference between the human Blippi and the cartoon one. He differentiates them as ‘the Blippi with blood’ and ‘the Blippi without blood’.