Protected: Perquisites

I’m ok, and made it home from work. No damage at home – just a couple of minor breakages again – but the centre of the city is a mess and they reckon there’s been multiple deaths. Amazingly, we’ve still got power on in our suburb, but the phones are out, and I think we’ll…

Meetup tonight, at South of the Border. I haven’t been there for years, and unfortunately it wasn’t as good as it used to be. Otakuu (who’s up in Christchurch visiting family) seemed impressed by her dessert, though, described in the menu as a “Prickly Dick”:

This bit’s friends only, because it contains a bit too much identifying information. One of the reasons I’ve been too busy to post anything lately is that all my good intentions of not taking on anything extra this year, and of just having a quiet life and looking after myself, kind of collapsed when I…

I felt a bit guilty yesterday that I wasn’t more upset than I was, but really, I’ve known this was coming for a few months, so I’d already said my goodbyes to Saffy in my head, and yesterday was just the final step of the journey. She’d lost a lot of weight over the winter…

7.59 am Christchurch Ok, this is the first test of the system I’m going to use to write my blog while I’m travelling. My internet access is going to be pretty limited, and if I wait until I do get on the internet, I’ll have so much to write about that I’ll forget half of…

Today’s been the first properly hot day we’ve had this summer (according to the metservice, the high was 33 degrees, and it’s still about 32 now, at 6.30 pm). Poor George has spent the day collapsing in one patch of shade after another, trying to find one that’s actually cool. Not a good day to…