Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 21hI think if it was just me, it would be considerably easier to deal with. But between my bottomless pit kid and husbando who avoids doing it, it kinda became a big deal. 020 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 22hI finally got it out of him that he's glad I bullied him into getting it, even if it did require a little man to come and poke the pipes. He's even willingly emptying/filling it before work! I wonder how long that'll last, but I'm enjoying it for the time being! 🤣 100 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 22hI'm swerving wildly between realising just how awful the dishwasher in the last house was, and wanting to put everything in the kitchen through this one as a matter of principle. Even Mr J - Mr grumbles about the cost but leaves dirty pots for weeks - is impressed. 100 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 22hI know I keep banging on about it but fuck me the dishwasher is good. We keep taking things out of it and swearing because it's a whole new level of clean! Our old chopping board is several shades lighter all of a sudden! All my mugs look new! 110 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Ursa has been to the vet again and gotten some more anti-nausea meds and some special bikkits. If this doesn't settle her, we'll do bloods n stuff next. Fingers crossed she doesn't need it though! So far so good 🤞 030 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Goblin child got her award at school this morning, for creativity! Apparently (Among other things) she wrote a lovely descriptive story about Sharks in tuxedos, going to a disco. She's a good little weirdo, my kid ❤️ 030 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Got through yet another repetitive school harvest festival. Songs, poems, a couple of terrible raps, and the vicar from down t'road with his box of weird fruit as "proof god exists!" 🙄 I can stomach the rest but I reaaaaaally wish they'd leave the god stuff out of it. 010 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Ursa hasn't eaten in 24hrs, which may be contributing to the pukey puke... so I got her some lickylicks and fancy mousse meat to tempt her. By the way she wolfed it down, I'm guessing it was a hit! And bonus: no barf! Keeping everything crossed that she's just stuck herself in an Ick loop 🤞 020 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The kid has gotten another award from school! No idea what for yet... sorta wish they'd tell you in the message about it, rather than making me wait till Friday for assembly. Ahh well, it's a good thing either way! 020 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I love my dishwasher. It sings me the song of its people when it is done. I might give it boggly eyes... 030 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 13/10/2026As if we need to hear more from Mouldermort the blatant bigot 🙄🖕 121 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 12/10/2026WEEEEEEE!!! 🎉🎉 Huzzah for swishy skirts in smaller sizes! 010 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 11/10/2026YAAAAAY! We have a dishwasher!!! The plumber came early! On a Sunday! He's getting a cracking review. Finally something good after a week of cobstant fails! 020 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Yeaaaah. I mean I think it was mostly the adrenaline that got me, but still. I'm gonna poke em on Tues and hopefully get a better idea of what's happening. 010 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 11/10/2026And before anyone squeaks at me; yes yes I'm going to get it looked at properly. I'll even brave the phone! Not till Tuesday mind you, because there's way too much happening on Monday already. 😩 110 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I yanked my shoulder so spectacularly last night that it made me throw up. That was fun. (My shoulder has been fucked for months. Pretty sure it's frozen shoulder. My mum isn't convinced; She thinks I've buggered the rotator cuff ligaments. Could be either I suppose. Either way, OUCH.) 100 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Ursa had a solid poo! YAY!! She feckin hates her paste meds though. Not that I can blame her; it's somehow both gritty and oily. 🤢 It makes her gag. 010 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A plumber is coming on Monday, for we have admitted defeat. Boooo! 030 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ursa is fine btw. She's lost a bit of weight but the vet didn't find anything concerning. She's probs just eaten something weird. She has pills and yummy paste to help settle it all down. I'm very grateful it wasn't a £500 shit, but also I could have done without the extra vet bill tbh. Ahh well. 020 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This would be a considerably less annoying problem if this whole damn week hadn't been full of random bullshit going wrong. A bloody picture frame threw itself off the wall yesterday and smashed everywhere too. Who has bloody cursed me and can you fuck off thanks? 030 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Well. We thought we had found a connection where a dishwasher would go. We hadn't. We then thought attaching said connector could be a DIY job. It apparently isn't. So I have a dishwasher but can't use it, and probably have to pay a plumber after I just paid £80 at the vets. Ughhhhh. 100 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hopefully taking Ursa to the vet this afternoon. She still isn't right, and she's stopped eating now. I don't know what she's done to herself but poor thing is sick as heck. 010 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 07/10/2026All that is to say; I'm side-eyeing our kitchen floor again. The laminate was blown when we moved in (No i dont know why it didnt get replaced with the rest. I think it didnt look as bad as it actually was) But it's falling apart now. So next debate is to floor or not to floor. Mr J is gonna love it 010 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We have a dishwasher arriving on Friday. Yes, the ongoing debate finally reached a conclusion after several weeks of generalised rubbishery from us both, and the realisation that yes, we definitely do need one actually because dish washing is an Ult Ick for both of us and that ain't going away. 110 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Shiny! I shall bend J's ear and find out when he's next off on a Saturday. 010 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 06/10/2026@ladyt220.bsky.social Looks like the fabric shop is shut this Saturday 😭 James is working too. We might have to try for another weekend for Leicester shenanigans. 110 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I mean I can't blame her really, and she did try to aim mostly on a scatter cushion again... but ugggghhhhhhhhhhh. And yes, we need a second litter box. I want another covered one, I'm just waiting for it to go on sale because £50 for a shit box is insane. 000 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ursa's belly ick continues. Problem is, she's a fussy bitch about her litter box at times and we didn't get to it quick enough this morning. Which means I've spent the last hour, violently shampooing the sofa again because she couldn't possibly pee where the bad poop was. 😑 100 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes. There were some tears, but when i offered to take her back in briefly to see the meerkats, she admitted she'd rather leave. I think she was more pissed off that I wouldn't buy her a £20 spider plushie. 020 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Honestly she was done by that point. It was rammed and she got overstimulated in the first half hour. 100 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Oh and we still didn't see that bloody leopard. I SWEAR it's not actually IN there; they just say it is to get more people in. Anyway, here's a fancy birb. 020 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The zoo was also a disaster. I mean, not totally? We went round the gruffallo bit, and a corn maze, and then we saw butterflies and a very fancy pigeon... aaaaaand then our ride got sick and we had to come home. We're going to try again at some nebulous point in the future. 200 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026static.klipy.comBaby Yoda: Preach It, Sista!ALT: Baby Yoda: Preach It, Sista! 000 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I guess I'm gonna have to suck it up and go! Yeah why not. I'll double check J's schedule, and hopefully I can do it sans child. 110 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Uggghhhhhhhhhh and Ursa has the epic squits. 😫🤢 This all bodes terribly well for the rest of my day, doesn't it... 🤦♀️ Did I have too much fun yesterday or something? Fuck sake. 020 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Piss. Turns out my bargain fabric acquisition was a bit of a disaster. I washed it all overnight and got it out this morning only to find it in several pieces, all with multiple large holes in em. It's like it just disintegrated. 😩😩😩 (Yes i checked the washing label beforehand.) 110 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For the record; I also had a flower Popple that I hated with the force of 1000 suns and have NO intention of ever re-buying. I could never pop that thing properly, and so it ended up sitting around as a weird looking sprite with a prolapsed (albeit flower shaped) anus. 021 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The (actually almost in mint condition) giant Popple I picked up from a charity shop today, and my weird French Popple from when I was a kid; I had a yellow one when I was a kid too, which I intend to re-buy if I ever get the chance. This guy is just a cheeky bonus 😅 120 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 03/10/2026AWFUL. 🤣🤣 Terrible! And I was totally expecting the cord to be a poly mix, but it's 100% cotton to boot! SCORE! 110 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I bought the popple Auntie Llama. I am ashamed! 🤣 But! I did also find a massive pair of corduroy curtains in there that'll do for making my trousers! So really the popple saved my crafts? 😅🤣 100 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh there's loaaaads of little ones dotted about the country. Best one I've personally been to was probably Colchester. Twycross is our closest, but its 90% monkeys. 110 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 02/10/2026🤣 Of course 🤦♀️ I forget the people in my pocket don't all live just down the road. Excuse the brain burp! 110 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm mostly there to supervise my kid in case she and her friends get a little toooo fizzy, but a trip is a trip! Ughhh, c'mooooon work peeps! It's the ZOO!! DO EEEET! 000 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Goblin child has had swimming lessons at school all this week. It appears to be going well? She said she swam a bit by herself the other day, so that's good! I wonder how it'll translate once she's back in a public pool though 😅 010 0
Mama Gourami @gourami.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm being kidnapped to the Zoo on sunday! The part of me that is awake is very excited for this! The permanently exhausted, lazy part of me is horrified. 🤣🙃 But I've not been for ages, its free, and therefore my exhausted side can bollock off and lemme enjoy it! 210 0
