• On Monday I took the lid off a carton of soy milk and thought to myself “oh I should shake this”. So I did, all over the cooker. I guess this is a bit like when the compiler just changes the order of instructions underneath you?

  • I burned my thumb on the stove as I cleaned up the milk.

  • Then the baby tipped my cup of (thankfully not hot) black coffee all over herself and the rug in the living room. It wasn’t my finest half hour.

  • A man came to clean the rug. It’s not appreciably cleaner but my wallet is £50 lighter.

  • House sale and Swiss work permits are still works in progress. The house sale isn’t going to complete this side of Christmas so rather than moving our stuff out and staying in an AirBnb before going to Zürich, as we had planned, we’re just going to stay in our existing house with our existing stuff until January. Unfortunately we’re within the no refund cancellation period for the AirBnb so we still get the fun of paying for the place.

  • We went out for dinner (with family) on Saturday night. It was good to have child-free time but the restaurant was meh and an icy draught froze half the people attending, then when we got back the kids had a terrible night of sleep. Balance was restored.

  • Toddler has a cold.