N Babble

🧵Spotted at an Italian Festival in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A family of three--Mum, Dad and Small Human (3?)--are cosied up on a picnic blanket around a bowl of buttery sage gnocchi.
Each holding a fork and tucking in.
Buttery cheeky smiles.
Live opera drifting towards them on a warm breeze. (1)

🧵Spotted at an Italian Festival in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A family of three--Mum, Dad and Small Human (3?)--are cosied up on a picnic blanket around a bowl of buttery sage gnocchi.
Each holding a fork and tucking in.
Buttery cheeky smiles.
Live opera drifting towards them on a warm breeze. (1)

Hubs calls my Eldest over every time he has a tech issue. Offspring is not techy and low key resents it. Tried to tell him it more of a need for someone who can SEE the little letters on the back of the tv 😉

Special thanks to Amber who reached out to share these images of invasive flatworms found in her space.
If you spot something unusual around your home or community, please share your observations with RoostersWorldJA on:
X: @RoostersWorldJA
Instagram: @RoostersWorldJA
Facebook: RoostersWorldja

🧵Spotted On Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A woman (70s?) says to a friend: "Do you ever feel like chucking everything in and running away to join the circus?"
Her friend laughs: "Sometimes. But then I remember how much I like sleeping in my own bed. I REALLY love my bed." (1)

Watching Stats Wars in “timeline order” Loved Acolyte. Remembering how much I disliked the kid Ani and didn’t remember how annoying JarJar was. Still struck by how unbelievable it was for Padme, a strong and intelligent woman, to fall for the petulant teenager Ani. Shared trauma I guess.

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A woman (20s?) is walking down the street, holding a tiny human (1?) who is wearing a blue bobble hat.
Mum is softly smiling to herself as she window shops.
Bobbing up and down, humming under her breath, soothing Tiny Human to sleep. (1)

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A man (30s?) handing out flyers for an upcoming ceilidh* is chatting to a woman (20s?).
He says: "If ya like laughing and having a good time, why not come along?!"
She smiles and says: "I might! I hear laughter is good for the heart." (1)

Moved one of my TV subscriptions from Netflix to Disney/Hulu and I’m really enjoying the switch! Catching up on my Doctor Who

Penny the black and white pitbull is laying on a multicolored quilt. She’s on her back with a little smile on her face.

Our happy Penny!

Penny a black and white pitbull is laying on a purple blanket and has a sad look in her eyes

Eli the foster cat finally was adopted after being with us for 9 months. Penny misses him. ☹️

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A cheerful robust woman (50s?) spots a friend across a supermarket carpark and bellows: "Come here and give us a hug ya big loner! It's been ages!"
Her friend laughs and hurries forward to meet her in a huge happy hug. (1)

Made my summer purchases today to replace what blew away in Nov 2024: patio cover, & covered bench swing. I added a couple of gargoyles for fun (they’re reading!!) Everything on sale and free delivery! 🥳

Thank you!

Thank you!

As hubs caregiver, how do I find help so I can go out of town for a few days?

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A small human (4?) is waiting at a pedestrian crossing with Nana but the light is taking SO LONG to go green. With a huff, she lays down like a starfish on the footpath and says: "Tell me when we can go Nana! I'm SLEEPING NOW!" (1)

🧵Spotted at an Asian Food Fair in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A small human (5?) is walking from food stall to food stall.
Dad asks what he wants but it's SO hard to decide!
Laksa? Mee goreng? Roti? Dumplings?
Hmm.
Ah! An idea!
He'll ask his tummy what it wants!
(It wants dumplings!) (1)

🧵Spotted On Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A tall woman (50s?) radiates pure affection while watching her vibrant petite mother (80s?) walk out of a cafe.
Speaking to friends, she proudly says: "She's a powerful unit, my tiny mum."
Her friends laugh and agree. (1)

🧵Spotted While Recently Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A man (30s?) in a suit, holding a take away coffee cup, leaves an office, swaps his shoes for sneakers, drops a skateboard on the ground and rolls away. Sipping coffee, expression content. Work's done for the day, now's the time for play. (1)

🧵Spotted Recently While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

Two men (late teens?) in boardshorts are chilling at the beach on camp chairs next to their campervan.
Pouring heaped piles of cereal into bowls.
Energy drinks by their bare feet.
Undies draped over their van's side mirrors to dry. (1)

Is there some trick to keeping air pods in ur ears? Am I moving around too much? I see people with them doing all kinds of things and I’m just can’t seem to get them set.

Get more from Skype a Scientist on Patreon Connecting people with science through conversations & art

A summary of what our Science IRL grantees have been up to for the last year will be dropping tomorrow (Wed.) at 9am Eastern over at patreon.com/SkypeAScientist

In the meantime, you can subscribe to our updates there!
I have a bunch of updates coming out soon, so now's a good time to subscribe.

Gray tabby cat peeking over the top of his carpeted perch

🧵Spotted A Little While Ago in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A man (70s?) is sitting with his grandson (2?) on his knee. They're reading a book about farm animals and he's relishing doing the piggy noises. Small human is copying in between chortling with glee. (1)

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aoteaora New Zealand:

A mustard yellow VW Kombi is motoring along a winding country road.
Past vineyards, cow paddocks and apple orchards.
A happy looking black dog (staffy?) poking its head out the window.
Eyes closed in doggy bliss, getting smell drunk as they go. (1)

🧵Spotted on Sunday Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:

An athletic woman (40s?) is walking with a teen (14?) towards the markets. With a cheerful smile at the blue sky overhead she says: "It's such a nice day, we shoulda gone bare feet!" (1)

Only those of you that grew up in the 50s will understand this.

Very happy to know that the insanely expensive generator is working just fine. The power is gone out twice today and we have had very little interference. Makes me feel much better leaving hubs home alone.

Black and gray tabby lying on his belly stretched fully out on the carpet in a big sploot

#Caturday sploot from foster Eli whose application family has ghosted. Meet up was suppose to be today.