January 2022

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Saturday 1 January 2022

Happy New Year! 🎇🎆

12:28 am
We rekindled our New Year’s Day traditional walk around Swanbourne Lake in Arundel. The best bit was lunch in the pub afterwards. We did our best to ignore the kids’ noise until it reached such a crescendo it set off the dogs on the next table. Still, a good time was had by all. The food in the White Swan was fantastic, but the relative poshness of the fish finger sandwich was too much for some, who complained they’d rather a Captain Birdseye original.

Rootwo leads the pack

The gang: I'm actually in this one.

The gang, I said "do something silly"

Roo, Rootwo and "S"

The kids table in a rare moment of peace

3:07 pm
Out scooting with my boy.

Rootwo with his scooter

4:27 pm
My mom is in hospital (not covid). Now it looks like the Omicron gamble isn’t going to pay off as hospitalisations are exploding. Feeling fairly despondent this evening.

7:51 pm

Very exciting, obviously.

Roo on a swing

1:58 pm
Oh boy it’s hammering it down. “Turn it off, Daddy” suggested Rootwo. I wish I could sweetheart.

Rootwo leans out of the window to look at the rain

2:35 pm

Child labour is alive and well.

Rootwo carries a board game in Chichester high street

12:11 pm
Lovely lunch at Bill’s then to the Novium.

Katie and Roo in Bill's

A Roman mosaic

5:45 pm

Kids are hard work. But sometimes—flipping heck—they’re so worth it.

Roo and Rootwo in bed together.

7:22 pm

Board On Friday (BOF) in full swing.

People gathered around a table playing board games

8:57 pm
The king of Perudo Simon and his standard roll.

Simon rolls five 6s

10:59 pm

Play-Doh cake.

Roo holding a Play-Doh cake she made

9:53 am
Katie and Lisa both lost their dads today, 15 and one year ago respectively. They decided to take a dip in the sea to mark the occasion. After lugging various bits of paraphernalia down to the beach, the ladies stripped down to their bathing suits and were in.

There wasn’t much moaning (or screaming); they just did it. Katie told me later that the cold water shock meant she could hardly breathe, let alone make a sound. I reckon they did a solid 30 seconds of actual swimming before the lure of a warm towel and a hot drink forced them out of the water.

“Well, that was weird,” said Roo as we drove home from the beach.

Katie and Lisa warm up after their swim

The ladies in the sea

1:01 pm
I couldn’t resist taking this photo of Kam looking proud at M’s birthday party. It was so great this happened without any Covid spoiling the fun.

Kam looks on as M enjoys her birthday party

7:45 pm