NoNoNoNo Day 6

I thought it was only lytteltonwitch who attracts weird people, but it seems to be rubbing off on me. Last night I was in town for my ESOL class (which was really interesting – among other things we talked about cultural differences and culture shock, and had a talk from a Chinese woman who emigrated…

As predicted, a busy and social few days. On Thursday after work we had drinks for a union colleague who is getting married, which meant I missed my lace class after all (I could have just turned up late, but I hadn’t had any dinner, and I wasn’t feeling all that creative anyway, having been…

(for the last couple of days, anyway). The mess creative process: The outcome (so far): Plus I’ve got about another 40 notebooks covered that now just need to be decorated.

I went into the Square on Sunday. That might not seem like a huge achievement, but to the people of Christchurch, it’s enormous. Cathedral Square (or just “the Square” to most Cantabrians) is the centre, and very much the heart, of Christchurch. It’s the site of our iconic cathedral, it’s where tourists and locals congregate…

When we got up this morning and looked across the street, we saw another crashed car, sitting in the remains of a tree! I’d been woken up several times in the night by squealing brakes, but squealing brakes aren’t an unusual sound in our street (there’s a few boy racer types who live in the…