Big News!

I’ve decided to turn Yule Be Mine into a bookring. I’ve put a notice on the Bookcrossing forums, and I’ll collect up the names of anyone who wants to read the book, arrange them in some sort of vaguely sensible mailing order, then pass the book to the first person on the list. Once they’ve…

We had a bonus meetup at Trattorie this morning because otakuu was in town and was keen to get together with a few of the local bookcrossers. Not a bad turnout considering the short notice (the whole thing was planned via the Yahoo group last week) – as well as the usual breakfasters (me, lytteltonwitch,…

don’t know when… actually, I do – I’ll be back on Tuesday night. I’m off to Wellington for a few days, ostensibly for work, but as usual instead of flying up on Monday morning for a couple of days of exciting meetings I managed to change my flights so I get the weekend to enjoy…

Lytteltonwitch went and picked up the embroidery from the framer yesterday, and brought it round last night to show me her choice of frame and mat: I think it came out really well (and the fact that the mat colour is called “raspberry” is definitely a bonus!). It’s all wrapped up now and back in…

I’ve been feeling (understandably) pretty flat for the past week, and have been having a lot of trouble motivating myself to do anything (other than play solitaire or stare mindlessly at the TV). So after a self-indulgently lazy day yesterday failed to improve my mood at all, I decided it was time to force myself…

[We interrupt this broadcast (before I’ve even written more than the title) to say I just looked out the window, and it’s snowing! It’s been threatening rain all morning, and started to drizzle about 20 minutes ago, but it’s suddenly turned into snow – and quite heavy for Christchurch, too. I don’t know if it’ll…