So in an effort to spread myself as far out into the internet as I can, I’m one third of a podcast with Morning Report’s Susie Ferguson and the Civilian’s Ben Uffindell.

We are pairing up with Wellington food icons, Wellingnoms, so you can get all the best images from their Instagram account and all the best words from here. Exciting times. 

Do you know what the Phillips Curve is? I didn’t. I mean I knew the basics of its output, but I didn’t know it had a name. It’s the relationship between inflation and unemployment.

Well that’s a bit shit. We had our first scan of this IVF round this morning. And now it’s our only scan of this round. The round has been called off. Happy birthday Dave!

Recently I got a playlist thing happening on Spotify. And it was a fun time. Now I’m running a regular update.

We’re back on. Today was day 0, Kim has begun taking a new pill that does some wizardry to try and get us a better outcome from this round of IVF.

Back to hopeful again. Boy. We had our follow up appointment with the specialist to find out what the hell happened and why we had the unforgivingly named “total fertilisation failure”.

There’s this amazing web comic floating around that talks about the mental load that women are often asked to bear when it comes to household chores.

If we go back a few years, when Kim and I thought that we’d be popping out children like we saw most of our friends were, we’d see Kim and me slowly accruing stuff that a baby would need.

Christ this is some rollercoaster. It’s way more exciting than the rollercoaster they had at that Footrot Flats themed park that used to exist in Auckland. That was the first rollercoaster I ever went on. 

Let’s begin with an index. Peak peak Ruminations, in order:

I said it in the tweet immediately following the show, and I’ll say it again, Rose Matafeo is a national treasure.