Me: aww yeah, I been waiting like a year til my parents got back over here and I had someone who could teach me to drive. I'm 35, it's well past time, I'm SO READY
Dad: ok. It's been a week. Are you ready for your first lesson?
Me: oh yeah. Sure, just... Uh... Let this layer of paint dry and I'm there! 😬
I think they're on the flight down! They were worried about getting through immigration in time to check in for the last leg (so harsh that they couldn't just transfer the bags through), but that was scheduled for 8 and I haven't had any texts back since I checked in a 8.03.
Nearlyherenearlyherenearlyherenearlyhere 😁
Squeeee! Parents have touched down in Tāmaki Makaurau!
They left Ireland when I was going to bed 2 nights ago. Still got to get to Ōtautahi, then drive up to the top of The Wai Pounamu to collect a campervan, then they're coming down here to Te Manahuna for the next 3 months!
Pretty exciting to see them, gonna be very different around here for a while.
4 adults to one child is a more manageable ratio 😅
surest way to get some rain and cloud cover in this cursed desert is to harbour ambitions of seeing cool shit in the night sky.
Fuck you, universe
I made a #crochet hat for kiddo's granny, who's currently battling cancer and wow. It's only the 3rd thing I've made, but it feels so good to be able to create a thing that puts such a smile on someone's face.
She has really big hair (the kind that goes up and out, not down), and is super conscious of currently being bald,so the bucket hat is perfect, it's not obvious what way her hair is under it.
Ive been around creative people without ever having the balls to do creation myself for most of my adult life.
This feels good. ☺️
Normally I like some notice before, well, anything happens, but got a last minute request from bestie who lives 7hrs away to come visit for the weekend. Still a couple of hours away now, but she's on her way and I'M SO EXCITED 😆😁
I know there's a hundred good reasons to have more green shit in urban areas generally, but we were in town ( #timaru ) today for a WOF and I took kiddo for a walk round the borderline industrial area,mildly concerned about being able to keep her occupied for the required time.
She was really into all the wee busy plantings around one set of businesses, and then, outside Tyre General, she found this little bermspace. It was the single, squinchy-dry strawberry we noticed first, but as well as the big bush that dominates this picture are 2 types of mint, lavender, dandelion, plantain, yarrow and a bunch of stuff I didn't recognise. She had a tactile ,almost literal field day! Touching, smelling, raining petals down on herself. Ascertaining which ones had been planted deliberately and which ones were likely weeds to figure out what she was allowed to pick, and playing eye-spy games, we easily killed a good half hour there.
At a glance, it's such a paltry, dry looking patch, but it's hard to explain all the inherent value in there.
#greenSpaces #urbanDesign #livableCities #parenting 
All going well, it won't be kicking in until kiddo's dropped off at Kindy, then I've got 6hrs to melt and reform before I go pick her up. Too easy.
Finished the #crochet element of kiddo's granny's hat, brought a few sewing projects (all patching/mending jobs).
Should be a nice day.
Just have to not talk too much/too weird at the teacher I'd like to be friends with 👀😬
RE: https://mastodon.ie/users/DodgyKnee/statuses/111523715905058617 Content warning: Medicinal cannabis, idiocy
"With show upon show upon tour upon tour being derailed by Covid-19, maintaining momentum as socialist-party punk agitators is challenging to say the least, but Dick Move will keep doing what they do best; shouting across oceans from the bottom of the world about things that matter, in a thick kiwi accent."
https://dickmove2.bandcamp.com/album/chop
#DickMove
Chop!, by Dick Move
13 track album
Every year, I listen to friends and co-workers saying some variation of "I can't afford Christmas, what am I going to do", and every year I'm like "you don't HAVE to play the game as it's laid out," and every year, they put themselves into debt for no good reason.
Tradition + corporations sure do have us trained.
#Christmas
Strypey
Chris Jags