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Update slash non update and New Tea With Alice with Damian Smith
🕑 Added 2021-10-20 00:52:14 +0000 UTCPre-baby limbo stretches on, and I'm regretting putting all my work aside, because it turns out (at least from what this one midwife lady said) 4 out of 5 first babies come late, and to me that means actually, this isn't a late baby, you just told me the wrong date. Anyway, being this pregnant suddenly illuminates the Chivalric tradition to me, because yes please, carry my not very heavy bag and open that door, I'm extremely unwieldy right now, all my joints are sliding around, I have no core stability, and I keep overestimating how close I can pass by anything. As Antonia Fraser (no relation) said in The Weaker Vessel, many women in history (she's talking specifically about the c17th, but I figure it's extendable) would have experienced a lot of their lives in 'virtually perpetual pregnancy', so all of a sudden a few of those showy benevolent sexisms seem less wildly irrational.
Anyway, I've started a few little self-pleasing writing bits that have been being pushed off forever in favour of deadlines, so that's a fun way to spend limbo time.
New Tea With Alice is Up
Damian Smith is a comedian and podcaster who has made a career out of the onstage persona of in his words, an "arrogant, intellectual, low-Ethos sociopath". We had tea and talked about how much he likes lockdown, his history podcast and the ways they're surprisingly similar and the ways they're different.
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
Non- itunes listeners can catch it here
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Thanks!
https://discord.gg/YTvmqGmU
Is someone able to post the discord link? It seems like the old ones have all expired.
Great news!! Congrats!
Peta Thames
Thank you for the update! So glad to hear that Alice and bub are well, I always get a little anxious about these things. Big congrats to Alice :)
Congratulations!
Ian Stark
Congratulations!!!
Excellent news, congratulations to them both!
Alice’s baby has arrived safe & sound. Alice & Bub are doing well ❤️
Richard Bennett
Thanks for the update, that's great news :)
That's great, thanks for letting us all know :)
Alice’s baby has arrived safe & sound. Alice & Bub are doing well. ❤️
Alice’s baby has arrived safe & sound. Alice & Bub are doing well. ❤️
Alice’s baby has arrived safe & sound. Alice & Bub are doing well. ❤️
Alice’s baby has arrived safe & sound. Alice & Bub are doing well. ❤️
Mini Announcement (better one coming soon): Alice’s beautiful baby has arrived safe & sound & Alice & Bub are doing well.
Thankyou so much! I’m so proud of the achievement!
Just listened to the last Last Post and had a lot of fun, the final few minutes especially was a really artful moment of multi-strand resolution. I cackled. Bravo, and all the best for your maternity leave.
Ian Stark
Your Smith interview is excellent. I have been involved in numerous births over the decades as a paramedic and a father. I wish you the very best. Your attitude is wonderful. Don't be hesitant to treat yourself well, you deserve it! Aloha.
Our son was 2 weeks early and my wife had to put her work aside in something of a rush. In any case, best wishes to all when your party is finally complete.
Richard Bennett
I suppose it's much like any delivery - somebody somewhere has their new washing machine arrive at 8am, but it'll only be you if you forget to set your alarm clock? (Any comparison of yourself to a badly driven 3.5 ton truck is purely accidental, of course 😉)
Our boy was 5 days late. Our (very clever and compassionate) midwife informed us that inductions are normally booked on the 10th day past due but our's would have been on day 7 so that she would be on call :)
