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Christ I'm buggered. Last night the washing machine decided to shit itself, spewing water out the detergent drawer. It's the good old Hotpoint F-05 error, outlet pump blocked, which Hotpoint owners know means "That's another hundred quid on repairs" and "I told you we should have gotten a Bosch." The Internet tells me it is fixable with a spanner, pliers, steely determination and enough time on your hands, so I'll apply that tomorrow. Today I lugged two large bags of clothes to the launderette and back, managing not to fall on my arse on the ice. Fuck it's cold.

I'm rediscovering the secret of fatherhood: Keep calm, carry on and swear copiously. I now understand in my soul why my dad swore more or less continuously.

Sainsbury's being fucking lazy sacks of shit, arkady made a grocery run while I was doing this. Asda (we chose not to shop at Sainsbury's this time) were completely out of bread, so she picked up several kilos of flour. This is for application to the breadmaker we got from juliann and naughtypixie, which is hereby the most popular toy ever. Average cooking time two hours, average existence time thirty minutes. OM NOM NOM. Arkady is going through the breadmaker cookbooks that came with it too.