Protected: This is why I'll never be an ambassador

It’s 7.30 am, and our taxi is coming at 9 to take us to the airport, so I’ve got an hour or so for a quick catch-up of our adventures. But first, what I know you’ve all been waiting for, photos of the gorgeous Arki and Bandit: Arki Bandit And, just to prove to MrPloppy…

I promised myself I wouldn’t just take photos for this project, but would force myself to dust off my art supplies, and despite my total lack of confidence in my abilities, put the result on public display. So here’s my first attempt, the product of a pleasant few minutes sitting in the garden. I’m not…

Phew! I’ve finally finished writing up the events of the last week (well, apart from the fact that I’ve just remembered I promised Bookczuk that I’d write an article for the newsletter…), so now I can get on with other things. But first, a couple of exciting catches overlooked in the excitement of the convention:…

Well, we were able to relax in a visitor-free home for one night, anyway. I just got a phonecall from MrPloppy, who in turn had just had a phonecall from my brother, asking if he could stay at our place tonight. He’s passing through Christchurch on his way down south, and needs somewhere to sleep….

I caught a bookcrossing book in the wild today! Now that might not seem very exciting, seeing as I am a bookcrosser, after all, and am over-run by bookcrossing books. But catching one in the wild is a very different matter to just picking one up at a meetup. In over three years as a…

Or should that be, I have learners? I met the instructor outside the learner’s house, as arranged, and we went in together. We met D, the learner, a Romanian woman of about my age, and then she introduced us to her husband, G and her cousin (or possibly he was her husband’s cousin? I wasn’t…