The Wellingtonians

After all too short a break from study, Semester 2 has started, which means my next Spanish class has started. I feel like I’ve already forgotten everything I learnt for the exam, so I’ve been struggling a bit to keep up in class, but it’s slowly starting to come back to me. This semester is…

Well, sort of revealed. Revealed in a friends only sort of way 🙂 What I’ve been working on for the convention is lots of little pocket-sized ballycumbers: They’re pretty simple, just made out of snow-foam and pipecleaners, but I think they look quite good, and will make a great goody-bag gift. Unfortunately, I ran out…

Some creative photoshopping (actually The Gimp-ing, but it doesn’t make as good a verb) on a photo I took a couple of days ago:

As planned, we had the first of two big shopping expeditions today: and we’ve still got another, probably slightly bigger, shop to do on Friday for the fresh stuff. The good news is we’re looking like being well under budget for food (which is a relief, because we’re a bit over budget in a few…

The m-bag from nekki2976 finally arrived this week. It was HUGE!!! The poor postman almost ruptured himself lifting it out of the van (as did MrPloppy when he brought it inside!) A few of the boxes inside had come apart in transit, but luckily none of the books were damaged. And what a treasure of…

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…