Today's Tweet-Dribbles

140 character brain-splurts of the day...

• 13:13 Getting quotes out of drain-unblock people's about as easy as getting an apology out of Jonathan King. #
• 13:36 My Tweets are in very poor taste today. Maybe trying to sort the drain has left my mind literally in the gutter. #
• 14:35 Idea for sale of PStew DVDs - There is probably no Godot, now stop worrying and enjoy Lifeforce. (inspired by @jimmyrabbitte's Tweet) #
• 16:19 Something v adorable about being nicely asked not to swear about the budget by @krishgm - like sweet humanities teacher calling for decorum. #
• 16:20 Was going to go for a walk this avo but Vi's having great fun playing indoors plus my trousers keep falling down. #
• 16:26 Oh, awesome pie! I may have lost Armando post ITL-Premiere, but Krish is following me now! I'm coming over all Channel 4! #
• 21:54 Eating cousin's Wedding cake. Fruit cake counts as one of your five-a-day, right? And I just had a jaffa cake so that counts too. #
• 21:56 Over the years, my childhood antipathy towards marzipan has turned into an abiding love. I think Bakewell Tart might have been the gateway. #

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What about the drains in Finchley?

New school term = the tots get to rule the roost at Playgym again instead of being pushed around by the bigger kids. Vi was able to have a really good scamper about this morning, and we saw our friends who moved away! These are the twins who are pretty much the same age as Vi - their mum told me the sweetest thing as they were playing... not only do the twins share Vi's current favourite book ('Night Pirates' - I really recommend it BTW, mums of little 'uns) but they call the Pirate Captain 'Violet' because she's got loads of curly hair. How cute is that?!? Then Vi and the twins did some Pirate Noises for us. It was ace. We hope to meet up with them on Fri for lunch before they head back.

Violet looks fantastic today, BTW. I put her in a bright flowery summer dress that I've been waiting for it to be warm enough to warrant putting her in for ages. we don't really have any tights that go with it, however, so she's ended up in red-and-pink striped tights. I thought if she was going to clash she might as well just go the whole hog.

Oh, and I dreamt about Rerun last night/this morning! I'd given birth to him at Sacred Heart hospital (and why yes, we had watched four episodes in a row the evening before). He looked like a boy version of Violet, and was wonderful. He could already hold his head up, which I remember dreaming probably wasn't that likely for a newborn. I was in love the second I saw him. We named him Elliot. It's made me feel really positive about his upcoming arrival today.

In even duller domestic type news, we're finally getting someone in to poke our outside drain. It's yucky and keeps overflowing. All of Hubs' attempts to clear it have failed. Very annoying going through several pages of Yellow Pages ads for companies with absolutely no idea of who to go for or what to expect. Getting a big national company to give us a quote because a, I've heard of them and b, they don't charge per 1/2 hour - I know how that game works! Still, I think it's going to be pricey. Got to do it, though - it's in our letting contract as one of the things we've got to sort out if it goes wrong.