Stage 2 - Water Hobbits
Bless us and splash us, my preciousses, but I'm a big nerd. I think this is a well-known and widely-commented-on fact. I've come to terms with it over time, that passion for a subject is no protection from mockery.
It's a particularly favourite thing for my family to tease/bully me about. They recently found it very funny that I was talking excitedly about our new åkpåse, the Swedish word for a baby-carrying bag. You pronounce it a bit like 'Ork Poser'. That's their new name for me. Great.
Anyway, after two days of early labour pains, my wife was getting a bit of a sore back, and the midwife recommended a warm bath. Worked wonders, so much so that she didn't really want to get out of it for six hours or so. For much of that time, she was listening to the soundtrack from the Peter Jackson (too long, too much CGI, this isn't the place for a review, shut up about it) film.
And I just know that my family are going to tease me rigid about this, but it was my wife's choice and nobody is ever going to believe me.
Did you get as far as The Watcher In The Water attack in Fellowship? That might have been enough to trigger Stage 3.
ReplyDeleteLoving the blog, Ork Poser.