Protected: Oh no, not again

Just back from a very pleasant afternoon spent with Kimi and MrKimi. They were passing through Christchurch, and rang to say they were at Mona Vale, so we quickly hopped on a bus to join them there. I’d said I’d ring when we got there so we could find each other, but as I searched…

I’ll continue with the series of travel journal entries soon (I’m just pasting together some montages of the Grand Canyon), but first a wee pause for today’s news. Not that there’s much, but it’s good to come back to the present occasionally. We’ve just come back from Riccarton, where we almost but not quite bought…

We had our regular Second Tuesday meetup tonight. We tried a new cafe (well, new to us – it’s actually been there for years), The Coffee House, which turned out to be a really good choice. The food was nice, they had a nice warm fire (which we managed to nab a table right next…

As promised (and whether you like it or not), photos of the framed artworks: I’d intended for the rest of this week to be just as constructive as Wednesday (being in an “oh no I’ve only got a few days left of my holiday and I haven’t achieved anything” panic), but those plans were pretty…

I think someone had a fireworks party in the park the other night: One of the things I’m really enjoying about doing NoNoNoNo is all the playing with The Gimp I’ve been doing. Pretty much every photo I’ve posted has been photoshopped in some way – some just a bit of cropping or colour adjustment,…

Actually, parental visit, but when have I ever bothered about accurate diary titles? :-p Dad and Stepmother came up yesterday for a visit (well, Dad came up, Stepmother was actually on her way back from watching the Rugby 7s in Wellington, so decided to stop off here for the night instead of carrying on down…