Becca Barnes
@beccabarnes
BeccaBarnesCats @ the former bird place. Cat fan. New Zealand Writers Guild. Denny’s VIP.
Just finished working so now I can relax with a little checky check of the news-- oh
A small double-take moment for me and any other Power Rangers nerds who get this NZ food email (Note: maybe probably definitely just me in that Venn diagram?)
Okay here's my current genius idea: Buy dog training voice recording buttons like these, get a more proficient Māori speaker to record some phrases, and stick matching pictures on them. Kiwi ingenuity 😆
I was driving my toddler around today and he was looking out into the traffic in disappointment saying “Mama, where pickle car???” thank you Richard Scarry I guess
Update: Back to the library where the poo book was for sale for 50c so guess who is now spending at least 20 mins a day looking for poo with a toddler (this is my own fault)
Just posting this here now so I can repost it when there's another article tomorrow about some brave Kiwi egging it immediately
Yes, because we cannot afford the petrol to get to the supermarket, OR the ingredients at the supermarket 🫠
Finally an affordable home for Kiwi creatives struggling to find work
Accidentally made a gender binary cake for my son's 2nd birthday because he asked for "blue" and I forgot we were doing windshield wafers 😅
Then walking out of the bathroom and finding a digger sticker on your bed 🤷🏻♀️
Me: my cat is a cute little teeny-tiny itty-bitty furball also me, more than once now: quick, she brought in another rat and this one's still alive!
You are at the beach and go to the public toilets. Do you pick: a) the blocked toilet b) the one with the door that won’t lock or c) this one
Fish & chip shop in Mosgiel still includes beef in their chicken burger unless you remember to say no beef 🤷🏻♀️
When the thunder is so scary you are shaking/hiding and won’t even eat your Christmas ham sliver 😭
Topping up the year’s stats with a total of 4 times the toddler has been bitten, and only once doing the biting! Just one daycare day left in 2025, are these our final bite numbers??
The toddler started work at 6am this morning, conceived a new franchise spin-off: SNAKES ON A TRAIN. Had to break to him that it has been done.
I'm not the Becca Barnes writer who wrote this but I kinda wish I was
For a second I thought this was a Birds Eye view of some hip new lattes I could try
I put a widget on my home screen with a notepad so it’s easier to jot down ideas and thank god i didn’t miss this gem
We used strips of magnetic whiteboard to move story elements around when breaking stories in the Power Rangers writing room. Just got some out to use myself and found these ones from early drafts of something years ago… ⚡️