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We put up the Christmas tree last night. We have a plastic tree (I don’t like the idea of chopping down a tree just to decorate our house for a few weeks) which comes apart for storage. Anyway, I was putting the tree together, and when I turned round to take the top section of…
Meetup and other stuff
It’s been a busy few weeks. Work has been as ridiculous as always (actually, more so, thanks to idiots panicking unneccessarily about swine flu), and the rest of my time has flitted away in inconsequential ways in the way that time always does. So, as usual, rather than any sort of real account of what…
It's not an addiction, honestly
Written 9.26 am, Tuesday 1 August 2006, to be uploaded whenever I get a chance… Why is it the moment DD goes down I have an uncontrollable urge to write a diary entry? It’s not even as if I have anything particularly interesting to report (except that evienz caught one of my books from the…
Books and auctions: a dangerous combination
Oh dear. I seem to have discovered Trade Me (New Zealand’s equivalent to ebay). I blame PixieKitten. She mentioned in a comment that a friend had got a thousand books for $1 on Trade Me, so of course I had to go and check out such a wondrous potential source of books. And I found…
Hate it when that happens
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Look what just arrived
Thanks, Yetzirah, it’s absolutely gorgeous!