Approved!

Yayyy!!!! After today I have a whole three weeks off work!!! I don’t normally take all my leave in one chunk like this (I usually prefer to space it out through the year with lots of little holidays, so it’s not so long between breaks), but seeing as the Outlaws are here, I thought I…

Well, Christmas is over for another year. We had a pleasant Christmas – not a lot of presents (well, apart from the major present of a new computer which we bought ourselves, but we’ve had that for a few weeks now, so the novelty is wearing off), but we had a lovely day mostly just…

This entry is mainly for my own benefit, to clarify what’s been organised so far, and what’s still to be done. Most of this is just re-hashing things I’ve already said, so feel free to ignore if you’re bored 🙂 It just helps to get it all down in one place. Tuesday 8 April ChristchurchLast…

We went to see Terry Pratchett last night, which was a highly entertaining evening. We skipped the free wine (I don’t like drinking when I’ve got to get up for work in the morning, and MrPloppy isn’t supposed to drink with the pills he’s on anyway), and the woman from The Press doing the interview…

As we paid for our lunch yesterday, the waitress asked us where we were off to today. Probably a standard question, given that we were at a cafe in Springfield, a town whose only claim to fame (other than the giant pink doughnut) is that it’s on the way to a lot of places. But…

I’ve been busy sewing today, making a Christmas present for Niece#1. A few weeks ago Jenny and I went fabric shopping, theoretically to buy material for a dress she wanted to make, but of course I couldn’t resist browsing the pretties myself, which gave me the idea to make Niece#1 a patchwork elephant like the…