Water man, baby clubs & other stuff

In Russia you cannot drink the water from the tap and must either buy bottled water or get one of those water machines they use in offices. The water is then (upon arrangement) delivered to you. The man came today to give us x 4 refill bottles but did not bring any change and you cannot use a direct debit payment each month from your bank to the company. It's bit strange and annoying. I gave him 1,000 rubles and he gave me credit.

I am off to my first baby club today, I have another on Thursday and another on Friday here in Moscow, its all happening socially! The strange thing about looking after a child at home all day is that your day is routine and each almost the same as the last, (poo, eat, sleep, walk) days merge into days, that merge into weeks. Before you know it, the week or month is over and you feel trapped in a cycle of time. I do anyway but that's just me. This afternoon, I meet another stay at home dad for a baby walk here in Moscow.

The landlady must replace the sink as there is a problem with it but the hole for it in the kitchen and the current sink are not a "standard" size so she is having problems to find another one, can you believe it? Why buy one like that in the first place? The plug in the sink in the bathroom also does not fit, so when I try to fill the sink up with water to shave, the water runs away. I asked the letting agent about this and he said just leave the water running. Coming from a more Eco friendly country, I was shocked at this. I now realize that Russians have zero concept of waste, resources or global warming. The country is rich in gas and oil so any idea of ecology and global warming is alien to them as a people and as a culture. They love the car here and pump out loads of smoke each day from their cars.

I must go now to the baby club, I'll report back later this week.