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Thoughts on speed
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The other day someone posted a message to the Bookcrossing forums asking how anyone could possibly read over 100 books a year and still have a life. The implication seemed to be that to read that much, some other aspect of your life must be suffering. The response was amazing – the thread almost immediately…
Curried cats and bird attacks
Sapphy discovered something important tonight: cats and curry shouldn’t mix. Every so often my ESOL student makes a bit extra of whatever they’re having for dinner and gives me some to take home for me and MrPloppy. Tonight’s dish was a rather spicy lamb curry. Really tasty, but with quite a bite. Sapphy could obviously…
More Bookcrossers arrive
Rarsberry, Skyring, and Mrs Skyring arrived last night. The Skyrings are staying at a motel, but we invited them to have dinner at our place last night, and we had a really fun evening (We even got to try some of the new chilli-flavoured Tim Tams! (They were… um… interesting. I didn’t think they really…
For Lytteltonwitch
We were in town at the weekend, and saw the ANZ being pulled down: A few other photos from round town:
From my travel journal: Monday 4 April, 7.45 am
Ventura. Happy birthday Mum! The view from my motel room. A small hedge separates the carpark from a multi-lane road, busy with traffic (all going the same direction – right must lead towards work for everyone). That’s not the freeway, though – that lies beyond, a concrete monster towering over the road, I don’t know…
Inside the Square
I went into the Square on Sunday. That might not seem like a huge achievement, but to the people of Christchurch, it’s enormous. Cathedral Square (or just “the Square” to most Cantabrians) is the centre, and very much the heart, of Christchurch. It’s the site of our iconic cathedral, it’s where tourists and locals congregate…