H-Bird’s Weekly Twitter-Spatter

A week that called for all my unionista powers of determination and tenacity was offset, on Twitter, by my continuous and cheerful babbling about puppies and babies.

• Someone in this house has been drinking, singing and using powertools, all at once. Fast times in suburbia! #
• Facebook suggests that @francesrosey is okay. Good news! #
• Did you know there is such a thing as an extended belly bar so you can keep your navel piercing while pregnant? Nothin’ to me; just sayin’. #
• A most difficult union day, redeemed by first pic of colleague w her tiny bebe. #
• Felicitous wishes to all who battle in the name of #jam today. #
• These are not the new puppies. This is their dam Fern, and Eddie, born three years ago today! http://flic.kr/p/C5YQG #
• Contemplating one’s navel is much more interesting when you know there’s someone right behind it. #
• Much of today was spent supporting people who had been given notice. This is also what I did on Monday and what I will do tomorrow too. #
• Unexpected outcome of TVNZ6 now included with TelstraClear Sky: seeing one of my vets, Deborah, on Animal Academy. #
• What I’ve been doing this week, and why I’m working at home today: http://bit.ly/diMdQL #
• To all my Twitter Toms whose name was stolen for my dog pup, said pup can now lift his head and look at things with his little blue eyes. #
• A number of my former students are JAL ground staff. I’m sure they won’t be tempted by this: http://bit.ly/bDDbfm #
• Feeling like a zombie – the “urgh, brains” kind, not the cocktail kind. Have moved the puppies into the lounge in the hope of perking up. #
• Ever since the narrator in Novel About My Wife mocked the Aust/NZ tendency to say “lounge” over “living room”, I have felt self-conscious. #
• The garage rang about my car & its WOF. The news was neither good nor cheap. At least they didn’t admonish me excessively for neglect. #
• Car bill not as bad as feared, tho’ still hefty. Brakes good for the next 100K km. Windscreen to be replaced Monday. I will have WOF yet! #
• Moved the puppies to a bigger pen today. This led to much wailing: everything was far away! This led to their first experience of pat-pats. #
• Snoozing in the living room earlier today: http://flic.kr/p/7Hu9XH #
• At three weeks old the puppies are starting to play together. Jackie wobbles up to Tom & Rosie and gums the heck out of their faces & backs. #
• Rosie is the most aloof to trends, but even she is persuaded that this gumming lark might be worth a go. Good times with no teeth! #
• I also have this problem with cards and, some might say, life in general: http://bit.ly/bMbKgu #
• Babycenter.com’s 22-week-old fetus looks serene and genteel: http://bit.ly/cBV99Z. My daughter is more of a sideways-lying headbanger. #
• I think I probably shouldn’t read any more blogs in which a newborn is parented. They make my gut fearful and my head explody. #
• The babyblogs frighten me because of the subtext that if I don’t ASSERT MYSELF during and after labour, something terribly will happen. #
• Something more terrible than incorrectly using an adverb in place of an adjective, what’s more. #
• Thanks to your sustaining tweets, I shall continue on my path of analogising most pregnancy matters to my experience of terrier husbandry. #
• … and now the pregnancy touts and hacks come trickling in. Thank you, no. #followthis #
• Three Fatties at Three Weeks: http://flic.kr/p/7HJfuC #
• So much curry. Also, happy birthday harvestdad! Also, clearly I cannot leave the Black Caps unsupervised. #
• Puppies having a marathon feed once more. Confidential to Fern: I am starting them on solid food tomorrow. #
• Googlage suggets “bommyknocker” features in The Hungry Giant series by Joy Cowley. #
• Tales from my mother at dinner: her obstetrician was painting his house when she started labour with me; he arrived spattered in paint. #
• Three Fatties Feeding (video): http://flic.kr/p/7HG1RZ #
• The rest of the dogs are coming home within the quarter hour. Very very excited. #
• The momentous Solid Food Day has interested only Tom so far; Rosie and Jackie preferred to sleep through its arrival. #
• The dogs are home! Suddenly the house has become noisier, but only at knee level. Puppies closed off in a pen behind two toddler gates. #
• I look ridiculous today. Black tracky-daks worn very low-slung, woven orange/white Thai scarf tied around protruberance, long pink t-shirt. #
• This is what happens when you buy maternity clothes for wearing to work. It’s a good thing my car has no WOF and I can’t leave the house. #
• Millie is beside herself: there are puppies in the house and she is not allowed to parent them. Will she react the same to the harvestbaby? #

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