"Poor Daddy"

Alice is very good at expressing sympathy and kissing things better. Even I feel a little sorry for the man of the house at the moment. Hot on the heels of a weekend that entailed leaving a wedding early to look after his vomiting child, scraping the car and needing to work both weekend days, "poor Daddy" went on to catch the gastro bug and to be required to work even harder over the gloriously sunny Saturday and Sunday which have just passsed.

He took a couple of hours off to watch us eat yum cha on Sunday and popped to the park to join Alice and I for the last hour of playtime on Sunday (of which more later), but otherwise things have been bad for him.

But don't feel too much pity. On the day before it all went wrong, this is how he spent a working Friday...

Second from left, back boat

It's for charidee, you know...