World Without End

Feeling awfully grateful for my family. My daughter Rosie beat me at chess earlier but it turned out she’d invented all sorts of extra uses for en passant which I don’t think actually exist. I’m just happy she’s playing at all. Then we looked through her fossil set, which she got for Christmas. Fossils are great presents, they’re really interesting and cheap. Meanwhile my son Charlie dances his way round the house singing made-up songs, usually while riding an invisible horse. My wife holds us together with calm energy – and tea, lots of tea.