They weren't visible when we were round because their parents are very sensibly sitting on them. Of course there's no clue to fur colour yet¹, but Bandmate has seen a glimpse of their eyes, which are visible through the closed eyelids in newborns, and we have a mix of reds and blacks. This is awesome.

¹ Not always true. You can tell if a baby's going to be very dark, but both parents are light - Pumpkin's a lovely smoky colourpoint - and black fur is a double recessive while brown is dominant and can thus be ruled out altogether, so we already knew it wouldn't be likely.

The babies are here!

Macbeth and his lovely future Queen Consort, Pumpkin, are New Year parents! One day early, too. We're rushing round to see them shortly.

And I dreamed that some kind of apocalypse was going to occur and that my family and I, and apparently some comic book characters at one point, had built an apocalypse-proof home module and grabbed some possessions and were now about to blast into orbit in it. (I think even Green was involved at one point...)

Bits I remember: biggish bedroom with bunk beds, too many beds and not enough storage for our purposes (it was a kit home designed for more people); grabbing some of my clothes(!); taxiing and accelerating then stopping because the military made some kind of mistake and we had to let them pass; grabbing a notebook or two of my stuff; someone mentioning that the construction work had been done by other people, possibly poor or immigrant, which made me guilty as I wondered if they had a module of their own; fumbling with my seatbelt before launch as I almost dropped my satchel and two books (sounds like me) and someone helped me with it.

I can't remember any animals in it, which is horribly depressing. Life without them really would be the end of the world.

Off to see baby gerbils now!

OMG, it's the return of the random added iambic! (or view fuller context part 1 and part 2)

Yes, yes I do have the full soliloquy in front of me.

I just tried reading it out in the character's voice, too. Hmm...