• Some brutal nights of sleep this week. I write this particular line at 6am with the baby asleep on me, having been mostly awake until midnight then woken again at 2.30am, 4am and 5am.

    Re: re: re: this: we (re)started sleep training with gusto. With the first kid we did it at 4 months and it has been largely plain sailing since. We’ve had a couple of tries to get the second one sorted out but a combination of general business, a different kid, visitors and whatever else has prevented us from committing.

    First and second nights: tears before bed, lots of waking, etc. Third night (tonight) is looking much better but let’s see!

  • Nanda had a work thing for 3 days this week and, given the baby still doesn’t want a whole bottle, I had to take her there 3 times a day to feed. It was actually quite fun. We went on the bike, she giggled at me and was very cute with all of Nanda’s coworkers. Plus having to go somewhere and talk to other adults breaks up the monotony of entertaining someone who just wants to be shown things they can bite and drool on.

  • We had about a billion people round to see our house. I always feel like such a moron dealing with people like estate agents. They’re always so suave and I’m always, I dunno, still wearing shorts and have a puke on my arm and say confusing nonsense.

  • Exercise. What’s that? Over the years I have gone from 10+ hours a week of cycling to running quite a bit to (recently) squeezing in 3 hours of high intensity indoor workouts to sweet fuck all these days. I can feel my body falling apart underneath me and really hope I can get back to something soon. I will enter the Zürich half marathon for some motivation. It’s 80 flipping francs (£75 and increasing, thanks chancellor) so my wallet will encourage me even if my legs don’t.

  • We watched the.. 3rd? 4th? episode of How To Change Your Mind. I read the book a few years ago and really enjoyed it — it goes much deeper into the sciencey stuff, at least to the extent that is is understood — but the TV show is approachable and reassuring and does a great job of explaining the potential benefits to many that might one day be available when the world realises that 50 years of repressive drug policy has just ended up with a lot of dead bodies and spent money.