xmz

mry xmz readers
we were hoping to tell everyone we were pregnant for xmz but we canne do it.

we visited a friend in hozzie the other day coz she just had a newborn baby. the experience was obviously fabulous and a bit sad, yeh? Yeh. Fair a fucken nuff, you say. But did we get a hold of the baby? No we did not. This was apparently because Das HozPitaal told my friend that they should only let the parents hold the baby. Um..WTF?

What will they tell us when we're in there and we have 4 parents and 150 grannies and aunts and friends? Get fucked..my mum knows almost everything and she reckons the best thing in the world for a baby is for it to be passed around and breathed on and cuddled by all and sundry.

The baby was lovely and I look forward to getting to know it.

A lot of people get a bit funny when they get a baby. Not these above mentioned friends, but there is a thing that happens (do you notice it?) .they become all Nuclear. Any tripe they spouted previously about the baby being one of the community/extended-invented family/it-takes-a-village-to-raise-a-child is forgotten AS SOON AS THE BABY IS OUT OF THEM. Suddenly John Howard Posters get put up in the nursery and the Liberal Party mentality of the nuclear family and the rights of the individual and look out for yourself and yours seeps in under the doors in the night and gets into the aircon.

With some wonderful, glorious exceptions.

my quiche is ready to come out of the oven and i have to put my teaching timesheets in now. toodleoo.

ps i know i have been a bit of a narky dog lately. i am actually in therapy now so hopefully i will cheer the fuck up.