alan

haven’t finished it yet! really off my reading game at the moment :(

preparing to get my son into @psbhq.bsky.social nice and early 😁

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Just found out that A Tale of Two Cities was originally serialised in two local newspapers.

It was The Bicester Times, it was the Worcester Times.

😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆

damn it he’s going to steal my thunder 🤣

thanks so much! exciting times (and sleep deprivation) ahead! 😁

i can’t wait to meet him ❤️

2K25 BABY TIME LET’S GOOOOOO

she’s great! very tired but the early nausea has subsided a bit. She can feel him moving now! i can’t yet, but probably will do soon

i’m trying to squeeze in as many fun social engagements as i possibly can between now and july 🤣

thank you very much! it’s been a long time coming ❤️

thanks mate! here’s to summer evenings pushing a pram around hillsborough park 😁

turns out coming up with names for boys is a tricky task!

it’s gonna be the BEST (and the hardest!)

*googles*
HOW DO YOU BE A DAD

i was born in June so it’s 50-50

i was also born in 1982. I need to know the ciabatta invention month! did i exist on the planet in a ciabatta-less world??

thanks! currently filling the house with adorable clothes from vinted and working out how many different kinds of baby containers we need 😁

thanks mate! am i ready for this? who knows. Only one way to find out!

thanks!! Life is about to CHANGE 🤣

thank you so much! we thought it might never happen, so it’s just amazing ❤️

MY SON

my wife and i are having a baby!!!! she is 21 weeks along, due date in early July. And we’re having a boy! here is the scan photo from 20 weeks.

I’m completely excited/petrified 😁😁

hey bluesky, would you like to hear some exciting and positive news? (say yes)

mostly those who seem to think it’s a progressive stance to say that people with certain disabilities should remove themselves from public life

i’ve blocked a LOT of people on threads today

yeah, i did the one a month thing, it was great, like a little treat each month!

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[explaining to a child why they are living in poverty] for every hundredth pint i drink i can get one free pint

fantastic, i will check them out!

oh, ha, i didn’t realise you were an editor of some of them, apologies! which ones did you work on?

it was really cool! the british library have a whole series of these themed “weird” short stories: Tales of the Insect Weird, the Polar weird, the Gastronomic weird… i keep meaning to read more!

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