Robert Smith birthday/RIP James Valentine

Every year I have a quest to honour, in the moment, Robert Smith's birthday. I was a day late, but thanks to Greenwich time, I was cool? 

Sadly, James Valentine has passed, and I realise he was the blueprint for cool guys with glasses, music nerds, and all of that. Thank you for being you. 

It's 9 years since John Clarke passed on, whilst bush walking. I'm getting a theme here-domestic life. 


Today, as the day or day before that or week before that, I went to the pool to swim 50m laps and it was good, though not yet a community formed. I'll keep trying. I feel so great after swimming, even if I've mostly kick boarded, each time I set myself a challenge to keep going. Then I picked up the youngest, and took him for a neighbourhood bike ride, on the new walkways or bike lanes, or something funded by national money. To cycle with him is to understand him, it's precious time. He'd told me in the morning, as we cycled to OSCH, that he has two friendship groups, and elaborated on it. Apropos of nothing, he told me the school is split between pokemon and Rubik cube, "two and a half three quarters, compared to one third and a half". Makes sense. 

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