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omeone has pinched my green bin!* I came home tonight (after yet another end-of-year function at work) and went to empty the wee compost bin I keep in the kitchen, and the green bin wasn’t in my driveway where it normally lives. The other two bins are there, so obviously whoever took it only needed…
An Unexpected Sunday Brunch
On Saturday night I got an email from lytteltonwitch letting me know that otakuu was in town and wondered if we wanted to meet for brunch the next morning. So yesterday morning I was up bright and early (well, early considering I’d had a pretty late night the night before, not having got lytteltonwitch’s email…
Rain and more rain
On Thursday night the weather forecast wasn’t looking good for Friday, with heavy rain predicted in the mountains, but the rest of the weekend looked ok, so we were up bright and early on Friday morning ready for our adventure. Lytteltonwitch arrived just after 8 (wearing an identical black bookcrossing t-shirt to me! I couldn’t…
Busy as a sewing bee
That’s the trouble with being back at work, not as much time to do fun stuff like writing diary entries. However, I *am* getting quite a bit of reading done – no, not at work (though it’s tempting sometimes!), but in my lunch break (I find a nice quiet spot under a tree somewhere to…
On not being brave and speaking Spanish
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You are feeling sleepy…
Actually, who cares about you, I’m feeling sleepy! After Dad and Stepmother left for the airport yesterday morning, I played around on the internet for a while, then tried going back to bed, but by the time I finally got back to sleep I only got about an hour before I had to get up…