The Wellingtonians

Sunday’s breakfast meetup was rather poorly attended – just me, lytteltonwitch, and awhina. I suspect everyone else is just meetup’d out – we have had rather a lot of them lately. There wasn’t much book-swapping going on either – I’d only brought along a couple of books I’d promised to lytteltonwitch (Wicked by Gregory Maguire…

We’re down in Alexandra, and feeling much better after a good night’s sleep and a relaxing day. Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts and wishes – it really does help enormously to know that people are thinking of you. I saw several flags flying at half mast around town today, and it was strangely affecting….

For my second image of the day I decided to try my hand at some scanner art. An interesting experiment:

These are the books that ended up in the goody bags (some of which were re-released over the course of the weekend): Alex by Tessa Duder The Worst Day of My Life, So Far by MA Harper The Two Pound Tram by William Newton Death is Relative by Edward O Phillips The Crazy World of…

Lytteltonwitch went and picked up the embroidery from the framer yesterday, and brought it round last night to show me her choice of frame and mat: I think it came out really well (and the fact that the mat colour is called “raspberry” is definitely a bonus!). It’s all wrapped up now and back in…

(What do you mean, it’s Thursday already? So I’m keeping up my long tradition of never updating my diary on time…) Underneath my desk there are now four boxes: Box 1: Registered books, all labelled and ready for release. Box 2: Books still waiting to be registered (I needed a MUCH longer weekend!) Box 3:…