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Leila woke up and started work. She was feeling not very energised for the day, which is weird for her, despite it being Monday. She worked a bit in the morn, but felt like she wasn’t getting anything done. They regrouped upstairs in the sitting room, and wrote the birthday blog for ages (it hadContinue reading “Day 54: Saving Monday Blues”

We woke up feeling pretty energised and Alex told Leila that he would do what she wants given she planned his birthday. She told him that all she wanted was him to take his glasses downstairs and to do the hoovering (which he always does on a Sunday) so essentially, nothing. He decided she wantedContinue reading “Day 53: The house hunt begins”

We started the morning with Leila making Alex coffee, Alex’s role was to kneed the sourdough which had been brewing from the night before. L didn’t take pictures because he was doing it topless to avoid getting covered with flour. After the nights rest, the sourdough needed 10 minutes of active kneeling before another 6Continue reading “Day 52: Alex’s 27th Birthday”

Alex woke up early because he’d realised the night before that he had the times wrong, and that his exam started at 11am. L was being amazing and had prepped him food and drink throughout the exam (toast, cheese, tea, coffee, biscuit, easy peeler). He sat down and got ready to take the exam thatContinue reading “Day 51: Bank Holiday Friday”

Thursday was a while ago now, so things might be a little hazy. Alex woke up early as he knew he had his exam to finish but he also needed to prep for the World Bank call later in the day. He had ruminated, and realised he’d made a mistaken inclusion in the code throughoutContinue reading “Day 50: Fifty first dates”

Leila woke up early, she didn’t sleep well, and Alex woke up early too. L headed out to buy supplies. Whilst out, she saw an Instagram post by Hidden Coffee saying they hadn’t qualified for a government grant as they’re a new charity and they had started a Go Fund Me page. She decided toContinue reading “Day 49: Roxanne”

Leila got up early, Alex joined L quite early too because he didn’t play any games (as part of a self defined test of whether he could avoid them entirely for the day). L made a compote and then got a message from her sister Iman. Alex stayed in bed for a bit trying toContinue reading “Day 48: Roxanne”

Leila came downstairs and went straight outside because she knew her first Oddbox delivery had come overnight. She was excited to see lots of colours and loved reading the little leaflet which described why each ingredient was “Odd” and rescued (e.g. size wrong, surplus, weird marks) and also where each ingredient came from. Lucky forContinue reading “Day 47: Runs and Steaks”

We woke up in Southwark and Leila lay in (because she was in a comfy bed?) but they realised they had to be quick in order to get back to Kings Cross for 12 and Leila’s book club discussion. We’d planned to set off late but were thrown off-course when we realised Leila hadn’t packedContinue reading “Day 46: A blind return”

Leila hadn’t slept when we awoke on the Saturday morning, she was super tired and had max 3-4 hours. We went down and had coffee together, we did the blog on the bench in the sun which was super nice. Leila had to go off and do her Ismaili presentation, but Alex stole her awayContinue reading “Day 45: Holiday”