Topiary progress report

While sewing the handles for the goody bags the other day, I realised that sewing all 40-odd bags was going to take more cotton than the one roll I’d bought. So, as MrPloppy had to go into town yesterday anyway, I asked him to pop into Ballantynes’ craft department and pick me up some more….

I’ve had a couple of days of sleeping late and reading most of the day (I am *so* glad I decided to take this week off work!), so I’m pretty much recovered from the convention now (it wasn’t so much the actual convention events – it was the staying up half the night talking and…

Ok, I’m determined to get my diary up to date this time. Possibly… 🙂 I’ve had quite a few good catches lately (probably because of my recent increase in releases, although a few are from books I released ages ago): Kiwi Dads by Jo Malcolm, which was one of the books we left on the…

Easter Saturday, and (as mentioned above) the last day of the first half of our big trip. Before leaving Dunedin we had a quick look around the city (and, as I said above, released The Iceberg Hermit at the railway station, where it was very quickly caught) because the shops had of course all been…

This morning, MrPloppy got a phone call from the daughter of a friend of ours, letting us know he’s in hospital with leukaemia. Then tonight I went to visit my ESOL student, and she told me that not only was the taxi driver who was murdered recently a friend of theirs (not surprising, really, given…