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Ok, so maybe I didn’t get the nasty gastric thingy from the water after all. Apparently they lifted the boil water notice a few weeks ago because they reckon they’ve put enough chlorine into the water supply to kill anything that might be lurking, but MrPloppy (who gets most of his news from the BBC,…
What did I say about bookrings?
Another two bookring books showed up at the weekend: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and The Meaning of it All by Richard Feynman. At this rate, I’m never going to get those NZ books read, so I’m breaking the ettiquette slightly and alternating reading a bookring book and then a NZ book…
Christchurch to Picton in 11 hours
Most driving times charts will tell you that you can drive from Christchurch to Picton in 4 or 5 hours. Maybe allow 6 for breakdowns or if you want to stop for lunch. But they don’t take into account having three bookcrossers in the car, two of whom are also geocachers. We were up bright…
Happy New Year
So I’m a few hours early (it’s only just coming up to 7 pm here), but Happy New Year to everyone anyway. I’ve spent a pretty constructive day today – the morning was spent in town, carrying out a few errands:first to the post office to post Stiff to Sherlockfan in Wellington (finally), then to…
A cat and a witch on a mission
I can’t remember now how it came up in conversation, but a while back lytteltonwitch and I discovered that neither of us had ever been over Danseys Pass. Which was all the excuse we needed to plan a trip over there for Show Weekend. As seems to be all too common lately, I was nowhere…
The new improved cat in a tutu
A couple of items of background: 1. In most of my incarnations on the internet, I use this avatar:[album 128913 FutureCat.jpg]I first found it in the avatar collection of a forum I occasionally visit under another guise (so I won’t mention the name of it here), so I’ve got no idea where it came from…