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…It’s the Three not-so-Little Pigs!
I’m on a bit of a fitness kick at the moment, owing to our renewed membership of the area swimming pool and a complete unwillingness to change my diet.  I’ve been out jogging a couple of times, and I’m trying to get back into cycling.  So when I needed to pick up a prescription from the pharmacy round the corner, I decided I’d cycle.  I took Finn with me, as I thought he’d benefit from some exercise, too.  It’s only a mile away, so to make it worthwhile we took a detour on the way back and […]

Last weekend my integration into polite society took another step forward, as I took Finn on his first Scout camp-out.  This, Louise reasoned, would be something fun for Finn, and would also give me the ‘opportunity’ to socialize with some of the other dads.  Louise normally takes Finn to the weekly scout meetings so why it is necessary for me to get involved too, I don’t know.  That said, I have met some of them before and some are actually alright (Mr. Tim), so I guess there are worse people to spend time with.  Plus, going with Finn on the […]

To give my eldest son the opportunity to make a few more friends, my wife signed him up with the local scout pack.  Little did I know that it would involve more work for me than him.  So far we’ve had to build a bird house and a toolbox (both of which my father-in-law thankfully helped him out with, not I), and there seems to be a constant list of ‘belt loops’ (the new version of ‘achievement patches’) that he’s going for, requiring me to teach him how to repair a puncture on his bike, or whittle a model out […]