NoNoNoNo Day 5

Winter is approaching fast, so we’ve started using the fire again. The fire (a wood-burner) has a huge heat output, actually rated slightly too high for the room it’s in, so when we have it on we open all the doors to the rest of the house to let the heat circulate. It’s great –…

I’m really not doing well at keeping my diary up to date, am I? I just don’t seem to have had the time or energy lately… or possibly it’s just that I keep getting distracted by other things. Anyway, been a busy week or so. The end of the year is fast approaching, which signals…

The house is very quiet these days. Only one cat, and only one human too – H is in the UK visiting his parents, and won’t be back until February (which is why this is a locked post – I don’t really want to advertise to random internet strangers that the house is empty all…

Despite the late night the night before, none of us could really sleep, so we were all up pretty early Friday morning. After a leisurely breakfast of hot cross buns, and some juggling of the shower rota (we quickly discovered that our hot water cylinder only contains enough hot water for two and a half…

It’s only 4 days into the term, and already I’m sick of studying. Of course, that could be something to do with the fact that I’ve spent the last 4 hours (ok, 3 – I had a break to watch Dr Who) writing a really tedious essay: 375 words in Spanish (which in terms of…

I’ve decided that the books I released in Sydney must all be homing pigeons in disguise. I just got an email telling me that Safari Adventure by Willard Price, one of the books Skyring caught from me at the conference, and then released later in Canberra, has been caught – by someone who is going…