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Meetups and Heffalumps
Only the usual suspects at last night’s meetup – we did think we were going to have a new member along, but she didn’t turn up 🙁 Still, as always it was an enjoyable evening. Not many books swapped (something to do with having seen each other on Friday and Sunday…), but lots of chat…
How come the cat gets better mail than we do?
Yesterday’s mail: I got a corporate Christmas card, MrPloppy got a bank statement, and George got a parcel from Lytteltonwitch. He didn’t seem to appreciate getting mail much though – after a quick sniff to make sure it wasn’t food or a lap, he got bored and wandered off, so we opened it for him:…
Snow!!!
Actually, the worst of the snow was yesterday, but it was far too cold to sit in the study writing diary entries, so I followed the cats’ example and stayed by the fire most of the day. The snow was a bit of a shock, really. The forecast had been for some nasty weather to…
Books and ozone holes
I remember at high school our principal giving us a talk in assembly one day about the dangers of ozone depletion. He predicted that within our lifetimes a day would come when we wouldn’t be able to go outside without protective clothing because the ultraviolet radiation would be so intense that we’d be burnt in…
The Big MM
I was registering books last night in preparation for our Mt Cook expedition, and hit a major Bookcrossing milestone: I’ve now registered TWO THOUSAND books! If I’d realised sooner that I was approaching such a significant number, I would have gone and bought a really special book to be my 2000th book (my 1000th was…
The best laid plans…
…tend to gang agley due to the lure of a lazy weekend, or they do in my life, anyway. I had all these good intentions of spending the weekend working on my linguistics essay, preparing Wednesday’s ESOL lesson so I don’t have to do it at the last minute, testing out my new secret super-powers…