Protected: H's "graduation"

So our annual Bookcrossing Christmas party happened on Saturday night, but our traditional Christmas tree didn’t. It was just too wet. Heavy rain for most of the day, and although it had eased off a little by evening, it was still drizzling and very cold, and hanging books from trees wouldn’t have been fun. So…

Having a week off sick but not really sick was great, but the downside was when I got back to work on Monday I had to catch up with everything I missed, and as this week was my last before a few weeks of Christmas holiday (HR’s been on my back again about not using…

Dinner at El Pollo Loco (which translates as Crazy Chicken! :-)) – a chain version of the taqueria we stopped at for lunch. We’ve decided on a change of plans for tomorrow. Instead of following Route 66 out of LA, we’re going to head into Nevada and go to Las Vegas! Hmm, I suppose I…

I forgot to add – had a few good catches over the past week: Crisis on Conshelf Ten by Monica Hughes was caught in Akaroa, Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy was caught at the hospital (I released it in the botanic gardens, so it had travelled, but not very far!), and Through a…

For once I won’t complain that the North Island is getting all the attention in the news. They’re having storms, heavy rain, landslides and flooding, and we’re having… misty drizzle. Suddenly the end of term (and of the academic year) is approaching fast. Apart from making me panic about how much vocab I’ve got to…

Have I mentioned lately just how wonderful MrPloppy is? I’ve been struggling all week to write an assignment for my linguistics course that’s due tomorrow, and I just couldn’t get my head round it. By this afternoon I was in total panic mode – the more I stared at it the less sense it was…