Miles-blogging #32

[peteryoung]

Look, I know I've been crap on LJ lately and haven't done a Miles update for months, but I'm marking a special day: Miles started nursery school in Hua Hin today. (Okay, I've always preferred the US-adopted German 'kindergarten' which, whenever I think of it, always reminds me there's a Geoff Ryman novel I must get round to reading.)

Anyway, he had a great time, and here he is in one of his two most recently-acquired blue t-shirts, sporting the name of his school, the BECC. His other new blue t-shirt mentions something or other about Internet Puppies, which arrived too late to impress Christopher Priest at Eastercon.

Unfortunately, however, I had to fly back to England last night although I'll be back in Thailand in 48 hours, hopefully in time to pick him up from his third day at school. I hope it won't end up as being bloody typical that I'm not there on other big days, like his first day of Primary School a few years from now. And I also hope this doesn't end up be a recurrent family trait: my father was always abroad on business on my birthdays (something he's always felt bad about), and maybe if/when Miles has kids thirty years from now he'll be stuck in transit on a space station or off mining asteroids on their big days, too.

So today of all days, I'm wondering how quickly he'll learn it sucks to be a working dad, sometimes.

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

Sorry it was such a brief encounter with you all at Eastercon. Once I realised you were only there for the day you'd gone

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

Yes, ’twas all too fleeting. But at least I still managed to spend a few too many of your English quids in the Dealers' Room.

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

He retains that old soul look. Can't believe how quickly the time is passing!

[hnpcc]

Wow, he's grown so much and is so cute!

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

He definitely gets the cuteness thing from his mum, not me. And at 18kg he's certainly a big lad for his age.

I truly hope and pray Michael can come out of hospital soon. You guys have my unending admiration for the way you're dealing with his situation.