Slippers And Leaf Blowers
May 19, 2026 · 1 minute readIt is perhaps the most American middle class thing to be outside on your deck on a Sunday morning cooking breakfast on a Blackstone griddle. I was literally wearing a LL Bean dressing gown and slippers.1
The family is visiting right now (hence the above; it’s not a regular Sunday thing, I promise), which means that Maeryn runs all over the house shouting ‘grandad!’ and has more people to pick her up than usual. We are also now doing a comedy turn pretending to be a cat and an extended performance act piece entitled “I Will Sleep On This Hard Table But Don’t Move Me Anywhere In The Direction Of My Actual Bed”. Definitely enjoying herself, and we’re visiting yet more of the area’s bizarrely fantastic playgrounds.
A few days left of the family visit, and it seems just a few days left of May too. Lots of new things coming in June…
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Today, I also had my first go on my own leafblower. Electric, of course, but surprising, a lot of fun… ↩︎