Protected: Another reason to celebrate

Waitangi Day tomorrow, so I decided to take today off as well and turn this into a long weekend so that I can actually get myself vaguely organised for the convention. I did have good intentions of getting up at my normal weekday time this morning and start work on convention stuff right away to…

My holiday’s over already, and I only got half the things done I wanted to (isn’t that always the way?), but it’s been a good few days off anyway. I managed to get caught up with my reading for my linguistics course (plus knock a couple of books off Mt TBR), helped MrPloppy to tidy…

You know that plan I had for registering all my “personal collection” books? Well, I’ve hit a bit of a hitch already – I’ve lost my wings. Ok, I can see that might need some explanation. Bookcrossing, as I’ve mentioned before, is completely free to join, but they do need to get some money to…

The misty drizzle of the last couple of days turned into heavy rain and a cold southerly yesterday afternoon, so it feels like winter has returned. It even looks a bit like winter, except instead of snow, the ground is covered in pink and white blossom blown off the trees. Walking to work this morning…

Poor MrPloppy! He flew to London on Wednesday evening… well, that was the idea, anyway – it didn’t quite work out like that. His itinerary was pretty simple: fly to Auckland, spend two hours there, then fly to Los Angeles, another two hour wait, then fly to London, arriving at Heathrow on Thursday morning, where…

Now that the convention is over, I can get on with the other things that have been demanding my attention (like work, but that’s too boring to mention here). In particular, I’ve been focussing on getting the knight and lady embroidery finished for MrPloppy‘s brother’s wedding. I’ve only got a few weeks until MrPloppy leaves…