We went away in February

This feels like a lifetime ago. I found my little mini diary thing I was initially keeping to show Tabitha how to make notes, but I didn't do anything with it (and neither did she). I might start doing this with my whole life.

14/2

• Waffles
• Started building Kyria
• Chocolate and raspberry nine-bar
• Pavillion
• Wore a hat and everyone was rude to me
• Curry pizza

15/2

• Bagels, This Is Not Bacon, Tabitha had her pickly bagelman bagel thing
• Swimming
• Tabitha likes watching athletics. Pole vault world record
• Lego Masters
• Too much food at Holiday Inn
• Steve Irwin

16/2

• Swim
• Too much breakfast. Pancakes, sausages, eggs
• Some Xenoblade
• Catchphrase
• John Lewis running a Green Hill Zone Act 1 time attack. 27’51
• It’s cold
• I got a new jacket. It is very green. Feels weird.
• We are eating at a restaurant that feels super creepy. Menu sounds good though.
• Food was delicious
• Most uncomfortable bed I’ve ever slept in

17/2

• Shower was good
• IKEA breakfast
• I won the Sonic thing!
• I need to chase that 26’01
• Xenoblade 2 is so good
• Tabitha played Switch Lite
• Winchester is as unremarkable as I remember
• Prezzo was so bland it was almost bizarre. Charlotte’s pizzas are orders of magnitude better.
• New Holiday Inn is nice
• People who take buses are jerks everywhere - guy pushes in front of us then graciously lets us go before him.
• Everyone has fallen asleep again, leaving me awake and bored and alone.
• If this bed is uncomfortable I’m going to be cross.

18/2

• Bed was comfortable. Slept very well
• Breakfast was ridiculously bland but good sausages
• I don’t like Hampshire drivers
• The more I visit them, the more zoos make me sad, but I got some photos I liked.
• I like lemurs
• My camera got very wet
• Someone left a cheeseboard in the hallway and it made the place smell bad.
• We got buy one get one free pizzas and kids eat free
• I love how much Tabitha enjoys reading
• His Dark Materials is good

19/2

• Home today
• Still raining
• 3 kids is a lot of kids
• Hinton Ampner seems nice but I prefer gardens to houses and the grounds were mostly closed which was disappointing
• Uppark is my speed. If I was going to have a ridiculous house, it’d be at the top of a big hill like this
• Underground servants’ quarters bigger than my house, but 45 people lived there at its busiest
• I’m glad I’m not afraid of things
• The countryside round here is beautiful, even in the rain. Would be ridiculous mid-autumn
• Drove the exact same route back that Dan and I did from The Grange less than a week earlier
• It’s nice to be home
• Arriving home to a cremation notification for Amelie was not what I wanted at all.
• Tabitha goes straight for the LEGO
• Richie Rich is another awfulgreat 90s family comedy. I wonder why they stopped making them; is it just because Macaulay Culkin got older?
• Tabitha is going to suffer from an inability to stop clowning around, just the same as I do. It’s weird to be on the receiving end of it.
• His Dark Materials was good but I hate obvious hoping for another series cliffhangers.

20/2

• It was nice to be away from constant strong winds for a few days.
• Ridiculously lazy day
• Built ISS with Tabitha. She’s crazy good at building LEGO now. She could’ve done this alone, I think.
• Built my Valentine’s dog thing Charlotte got me
• Thought my splitkb order arrived but it hadn’t
• Played like 8 hours of Xenoblade
• Ate a meal that wasn’t pizza
• Should’ve gone to badminton last night. Feeling like a sack today.

21/2

• Charlotte and Tabitha going to London without me for the day. Rude.
• Took them to the station, picked up my Zealios
• Lubed 50 Zealios
• Watched Ford v Ferrari
• Made Tabitha some legs with knees out of LEGO. The knees are made from Minifig legs