Happy 5th Birthday, Sam!

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The day before her fifth birthday Sam reached a milestone: she completed her first swim class without a parent in the water with her! She was extremely nervous about this. I was extremely nervous about her being extremely nervous. But once she got in the water she was fine. And for once I got to take pictures instead …

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The bathroom in our flat is a bit over the top.

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Farewell party for the Linden Lab Brighton office. There were speeches. And a lot of beer.

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The gymnastics instructor asks Sam to demonstrate proper skipping to the rest of the class.

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Watched us forlornly as we passed under his window.

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An old cardboard moving box + a lot of parcel tape + AC’s ingenuity = one Wardrobe to Narnia! Here it is a few hours later: Yes, I know, it’s very subtle. Unlike C.S. Lewis’s wardrobe, ours lets you know up front that you’re entering another world. The real mystery of our wardrobe is whether or not it will withstand …

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We seem to be in the midst of a “fam-demic”: on Thursday AC wasn’t feeling so good. On Friday Sam’s nose started dripping. Today I’m not feeling so great. We had plans to go away this weekend but we canceled them and are relaxing at home in Brighton. Except that it was such a gorgeous day that we just had to go out for …

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Yes with two LLs apparently. That’s how they spell it here. I learned that the hard way when I had trouble finding a copy of Roald Dahl’s story in the online library catalog. (We never did manage to get a hard copy of the book. Instead I downloaded a free pdf version, converted it to an epub, and we read it on my …

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