[Sunday 27th February 2022]
Managed to persuade Erika to go out for a Sunday roast at a pub for lunch (she's never very keen), although she had a burger. In the remainder of the afternoon Erika went to a friend's birthday party and I went to the heath for a bit.
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[Saturday 26th February 2022]
Bec, Dave and Jessica were in London for the weekend to do some sightseeing so we met them for lunch at the Sherlock Holmes pub. After that Erika and I continued the Sherlockian theme (she is reading Hound of the Baskervilles at school at the moment) and went to visit the Sherlock Holmes Museum on Baker Street.
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[Wednesday 23rd February 2022]
Surveyed the wild cherry blossom on the heath, then later on we decided it was time to change the Lego bonsai tree into its cherry blossom configuration.
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[Saturday 19th February 2022]
I decided to take another longer walk this morning, up to Kenwood House again, to once more try and find the snowdrops that I had heard were there.
In the evening friends from round the corner came to visit, and brought their dog with them.
I made another video of today's walk with some silly background music which seemed to fit the country house backdrop:
[Friday 18th February 2022]
We had been planning to drive down to Devon today, but alas Storm Eunice put pay to that. Stayed indoors for the worst of it, when the wind was so strong it was lifting up one of the paving slabs in the back garden.
Once it had died down later on I went for a quick walk to Hampstead Heath (and avoided sitting underneath any trees!) to survey the damage.
I also took some video footage of the heath after the storm:
[Thursday 17th February 2022]
It was Erika's half term holiday this week, and although I was unfortunately working throughout the week, I took a little bit of time out this morning so we could go for breakfast together at a local cafe - and it seems like we hadn't been there together for two years. In the evening Chie went out to see a friend, so Erika and I had a lazy night in with junk food burgers for dinner, and watched a movie together.
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[Sunday 13th February 2022]
Most of the day spent at home - Erika did a bit of flower arranging - and I went for a rainy/windy walk on the heath later in the afternoon.
I took a few videos while I was on the heath, and attempted to edit them together with some unnecessarily jaunty background music, and a lot of it sped up because the footage was actually quite dull. I found doing the audio mixing a bit difficult with the app I have, I was trying to lower the volume of the music during the bits where I was speaking, but it seemed to be quite a faff to do that, and ended up introducing a lot of jarring squelchy sort of noises.
Oh well, I won't be giving up the day job just yet.
[Saturday 12th February 2022]
Erika was at a sleepover this evening. Chie and I decided to walk over to Hampstead, and went for dinner at a tapas place we used to go to when I lived there (although it is quite different now).
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[Friday 11th February 2022]
Fish and chips (well, halloumi and chips in my case) with Chie for lunch. In the evening the girls went to a party with local friends, and I decided to cook my dinner on the heath.
Also a few timelapses of the moon / night sky I took with my GoPro while I was sitting on the heath having dinner in the dark:
[Thursday 10th February 2022]
Went along to see Erika perform in a strings concert at her school in the morning. Then towards the end of the day went to the heath for a nice sunset.
Took a bit of video footage with my GoPro this evening as well:
[Wednesday 9th February 2022]
I was up bright and early this morning and went to our local French bakery to buy a baguette for breakfast.
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[Tuesday 8th February 2022]
Too busy working (what a nuisance!) so didn't have the usual walk to the heath today while Erika was at woodwork.
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[Sunday 6th February 2022]
Afternoon / evening out with two other families we're friends with, starting with karaoke and then ramen at the new Japan Centre ramen place.
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[Saturday 5th February 2022]
Took delivery of some more camping / outdoorsy equipment today: some gaiters, a lightweight bivvy bag, a piezo lighter and some titanium tent pegs.
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[Friday 4th February 2022]
Another snowdrop in the garden. Almost went for a walk to the heath but then decided I couldn't actually be bothered.
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[Thursday 3rd February 2022]
Went on a longer than usual wander on the heath today, all the way up to Kenwood House, in search of snowdrops. Alas not quite flowering yet.
I also made a video of it. It's a bit pointless but if you really have nothing better to do:
[Tuesday 1st February 2022]
The usual Tuesday evening stroll to the heath while Erika was at woodwork. Caught the tail end of the sunset, some lovely pink sky this evening, particularly on the way there.
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