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I know they’re a total rip-off and a blatent attempt by Lucasfilm to extract even more money from fans, but I don’t care. I’ve finally got my copies of the theatrical release versions of episodes IV-VI. I’m a happy cat. Guess what I’ll be spending the rest of the weekend doing?
Convention Day 3
The last day of the convention began at King George Square again. There was a market in the square where, while waiting to meet up with the other bookcrossers, I released They’re a Weird Mob by John O’Grady and found a face-painter to give me another ballycumber on my hand (it would have been more…
What I read in 2010
Total = 137 books January (10) Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks At the Hall by Henrietta Soames The River King by Alice Hoffman A Vaudeville of Devils by Robert Girardi Torchon Lacemaking: A Manual of Techniques by Elizabeth Wade Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century by Lauren Slater Hexwood by Diana…
In Wellington
Greetings from Wellington… well, Upper Hutt, actually. I’m staying at Sherlockfan’s place, and being fabulously well looked after by her and MrFan (whose computer I’m using). After a boring day in meetings on Thursday, I met Sherlockfan in town and she whisked me off to Upper Hutt and dinner, after which I almost immediately fell…
Backstitching for rarsberry
Rarsberry asked me what backstitching is. Cross-stitch differs from other forms of embroidery in that there’s only a few basic stitches. Most forms of embroidery use lots of different stitches, with the different textures of them forming the design. Cross-stitch, on the other hand, really only has three different stitches (there are others that are…
Topiary progress report
Only the back-stitch to go on this tree, and I’ll be half-way to finishing the entire picture (there’s four topiary trees in total). Currently reading: Palm Prints by Fiona Kidman