Approved!

Final exam for Spanish tomorrow, so I’ve spent the week embroidering 🙂 Actually, I have been studying really, but I’ve done a bit of embroidery now and then when I’ve needed a break, and I managed to finish the last of the kittens (complete with progress photos, but no guessing game, seeing as I’ve given…

Too late to back out now, I’ve booked my flights. Next March I’ll be off to Ireland, for a couple of weeks road-tripping with Lytteltonwitch, followed by the 2012 Bookcrossing Convention in Dublin and a visit to Ballycumber, spiritual home of the bookcrossing mascot. And hopefully, to catch up with a few Australian friends along…

We decided to hold this month’s meetup a week early, so that it could also be a hen night for awhina. Or more technically, a “hen and rooster and chicks” night, because we wanted her fiancé and the kids to come along too. For months lytteltonwitch, MrPloppy and I have been teasing awhina about being…

George discovered the cat flap on Sunday night. He’s had the run of the house, but despite the fact we’d left the cat flap unlocked (so Ming and Saffy could come and go), we didn’t think he’d be able to get out because his previous owner told us he’d never had a cat flap so…

The bags are finished at last! Yesterday morning lytteltonwitch and otakuu arrived bearing sewing machines and copious supplies of food, and we spent a very constructive day sewing and ironing (otakuu is an ironing champion!) and chatting and eating. Sometimes it felt like we were doing more chatting than sewing 🙂 but slowly the piles…