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The weekend
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In a calmer voice now… 😉 We had a very busy day on Saturday. First up was a breakfast meetup (hmm, I haven’t heard yet what the new official name for meetups is going to be – they were supposed to be voting on it at Charleston) at Trattorie, attended by me, MrPloppy, lytteltonwitch, and…
From my travel journal: Sunday 3 April, 7.30 pm
Ventura As we drove south, the landscape changed from the fresh spring greens of northern California to a dustier, drier look. Instead of strawberry fields there were oil wells (literally hundreds within an area of a few square km on land, and a few much bigger ones out to sea) and citrus orchards. The roads…
From my travel journal: Saturday 9 April, 3.45 pm
Somewhere in southern Texas Yesterday was the first day that’s been mostly boring, but it did have its highlights. The main aim of the day was just getting from Lubbock to San Antonio – a very long trip mostly across more wide flat plains with not a lot to see. Just outside Lubbock was a…
Testing, testing…
7.59 am Christchurch Ok, this is the first test of the system I’m going to use to write my blog while I’m travelling. My internet access is going to be pretty limited, and if I wait until I do get on the internet, I’ll have so much to write about that I’ll forget half of…
Throwing away books
There’s something about books that makes them really hard to throw away. This morning I was registering some more of the books Lytteltonwitch gave me, and came across a couple that were damaged beyond my limited book-repair skills. One had obviously been chewed on by a dog, which in itself isn’t always fatal for a…
Willpower must be a wonderful thing to have
Well I did start out with great intentions of getting back to work on one of my many half-finished cross-stitch projects, but as always, digging through the trunk was fatal, and the temptation of starting something new became all too much. So I’ve now got yet another project on the go. It is quite a…