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Remember those pictures of snow I posted a few weeks back? I might as well just re-post them – it looks exactly the same out there again today. Which means another day off work! We we closed yesterday too, though the snow wasn’t as heavy as it is this morning (well, at least in Christchurch…

That’s how much flying I’ll be doing if I go with the latest itinerary I’ve worked out for the London trip. That’s a lot of flying! (There goes any pretensions I have to being green…) The itinerary has been changing almost on a minute by minute basis over the last couple of days, with emails…

Summer has truly arrived, because the nor’westers have started. Today’s was worse than usual (I thought we were going to lose part of the fence at one stage), so going outside to do anything was pretty much out of the question, and inside the house it was hot and muggy – and stuffy, because we…

I finally got all my release notes done! Here’s the list: 1 AprilAuckland:The Flint Knife by EF Benson San Francisco:Female Friends by Fay Weldon (caught!)The Story of Benjamin Bee by Pat Wynnejones 2 AprilSan Francisco:Another Amy by Marilyn KayeWhose Side Are You On? by Alan GibbonsMidshipman Quinn by Showell Styles (caught!)The Zucchini Warriors by Gordon…

Fort Mason Youth Hostel, San Francisco. This has been a really long day! I managed to get a couple of hours’ sleep on the plane, but I never sleep well in vehicles at the best of times, and it was a pretty bumpy trip. It seemed like every time I started to drift off we’d…