NoNoNoNo Day 5

Poor Saffy! She doesn’t know it yet, but she’s off to the vet today. I noticed a few days ago that she kept licking and biting at a spot on her back, but thought she must just have had a flea or something and didn’t think anything more of it. But last night MrPloppy noticed…

Who says we never finish any projects around the house? A bit under three years ago, we decided to set up the spare room as a proper study/computer room, but at the time could only afford one proper desk. So my computer was put temporarily on an old table, with plans to replace it with…

I’ve had a busy wee day today. I made: Apricot muffins Apricot and orange loaf Walnut biscuits (which don’t actually contain walnuts – it’s an old family recipe that once upon a time called for walnuts, but as none of us liked them, we always substituted sultanas. The name has stuck, though.) Gingernuts Fruit loaf…

Had an email today to say that someone had just caught Wuthering Heights, one of the books I released at last year’s mini-convention. So that’s another book that’s taken 10 months between release and catch. The finder said they’re going to send it to Austria, so I hope it gets another journal entry when it…

You know that saying “Red sky at night…”? Well, it’s not true. The night before we left for Wellington there was the most glorious sunset, yet the next morning dawned grey and drizzly. The Outlaws had returned the campervan when they got back from the West Coast, so we were taking the train and ferry…

It’s really not fair! At work today, while thinking of things other than work (as one does), I thought it would be a cool idea to take photos of all my current embroidery works-in-progress and post them on my diary, so I could check back in a year from now and see if I’d actually…