🍞 Week 179 - Loaf

• It’s been a very quiet week, Monday especially so with my US colleagues off work. Of course there was a change in president over there. I’m trying to avoid doomscrolling but it’s inevitable we will feel the effects here and in Europe.
• We spent a lot of time ferrying the boys around various clubs and activities. I took C to his first football training session at nearby Knebworth where he was happy to find three other boys from his school. He did well in the freezing cold. I then watched his big brother’s team win 5-2 in Welwyn before taking C for an indoor rugby session on Sunday morning.
• I’ve been baking more overnight bread in my new bread-maker. Coming downstairs to the smell of warm bread is an excellent start to the day. It’s really quick and gratifying. I need to be a bit more adventurous, though. So far I’ve not deviated from white/brown loaves with poppy and sunflower seeds. Maybe I could try banana bread?
• This week I had my last leadership coaching session with Joel Chippindale. He’s an excellent coach and I’ve benefited from his expert guidance and reassurance over the last year. If you’re thinking about similar coaching (do it!) I’d strongly recommend Joel.
• The Fantasy Premier League rivalry is growing in our home. I introduced it and must take some of the blame. H is outraged that both his mother and his little brother are beating him. It’s even reached a point that when the latest scores are being read out on TV everyone is calculating what it means for each other’s teams. I’m still top of all my leagues (for now).
• I’ve been playing with Cloudflare Pages and Astro’s Server-Side Rendering (SSR). It all fits together very smoothly. It might even be a solid choice for a new website. Hmm.
• We finished watching the latest series of The Traitors. It’s been one of the few things we’ve watched recently in realtime (apart from sport) and has been a guilty nightly pleasure. It’s all nonsense of course, but very watchable. I’m sad it’s over but I won’t miss the participants’ habit of referring to each other as yourself, e.g. “I’ve voted for yourself, Joe”. Why?!