Progressing

Breakfast on Monday was a much more relaxed occasion – the sun had finally come out, so we sat outside at the cafe, and enjoyed one last chance to talk to our new friends, and to share a few last books. [album 128913 nzbc30.JPG thumblink] [album 128913 nzbc31.JPG thumblink] We had a few thank-you speeches,…

As predicted, the temptation of my new craft project got the better of me last night, and I decided to have a go at laying out the pieces on the grid. I thought it would probably take me several goes before I got it looking ok, but once I got the hang of seeing the…

We had a slow start the next morning (thank goodness!), while we organised vehicles. Mum had offered Father-Outlaw her car for the day, rather than having to take the campervan everywhere, but first we had to wait for it to be returned by someone who’d borrowed it the day before or something (it was all…

I blame Yetzirah. I’ve always liked the idea of organisers and planner-type diaries, but whenever I’ve gone to buy one I’ve been put off by the fact that what they organise has little relationship to my life. I don’t need to keep an expenses sheet, record my milage, or file business cards, but I do…

(Ok, so it took a while to get back to it, but here’s the rest of the story of our Mt Cook adventure…) As we left the main highway and headed up the road to Mt Cook the mountains got higher (well, steeper – we couldn’t see the tops of them in the clouds, so…

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…