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More having to look after my own kids today. Catie had a preview for her new Edinburgh show tonight (
book tickets NOW) so was prepping for that most of the day, though I did manage to get in an 8am game of tennis, which obviously just knackered me out for the rest of the day.
We did more baking - this time making ginger biscuits, my favourite type of biscuit and biscuits are one of my favourite things (back in an early 2000s Fringe I warned my flatmates to keep me away from actresses and biscuits which pretty much sums up my sad life). I should have been put off ginger biscuits today when I realised that they are made principally of sugar, syrup and butter (somehow I'd felt like they were a healthy option up against other cakes and sweet things, but ginger is a very minor ingredient), but making very nice ginger biscuits at home and seeing how easy it was, just made me think that that's all I am going to do from now on. So that's my life over.
Phoebe thinks we should set up a cafe together and aside from the fact that I would eat all the produce and die in two years I think it's a good idea. With her artistic and baking skill and my liking eating biscuits, I think we could be the perfect team.
The rest of the day was trying to forge a delicate balance between fulfilling my fatherly duties, keeping the kids alive and not falling asleep. We went for pizza, watched the Minecraft Movie, tried to learn French and Italian, played our own made up wordles, did some Doctor Doctor jokes, walked the dog, played in the splash park.... Somehow I didn't fall asleep (though nearly during Minecraft). The thing with kids is they manage to pack a lot of stuff into one day. At one point I looked at my watch and couldn't believe it was still four hours to bed time.
The kids bedtime was also my bedtime again tonight and Catie got to stay out with her comedy pals and enjoy her gig. It's good that we both get to do work and the really hard work of parenting. And dads who don't do this stuff are really missing out. On biscuits mainly.
Retro RHLSTP with Terry Christian now up as a podcast.
And also as a FULL, FREE video.
