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