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Just over an hour into the cooking process, and the vinegar is working its magic, turning a pot full of fruit into a rich dark brown syrup: See, I told you it would reduce! And the good news is, I found enough jars. Now I’ve just got to clean and sterilise them, and we’re good…
Finally, the promised photos
Remember way back when Harry Potter 7 was released, MrPloppy, lytteltonwitch and I went down to Dunedin for the Regent booksale, and decided to dress up and stand in the queue on Saturday morning? And remember I promised photos? Well, here they are: Left to right: Lytteltonwitch, MrPloppy, and me A closer view of MrPloppy’s…
Jury Duty
The dreaded jury duty this week… actually, I wasn’t really dreading it, although it’s one of those things you’re supposed to moan about. I was kind of looking forward to it, actually. The whole process of how justice works interests me, and I’d love to see the jury process from the inside, but this is…
Only three more sleeps!
Suddenly, the convention has gone from being weeks away to being this week. I think I’m almost ready though: both secret projects are complete, and one is on its way to Sherlockfan; the bags are sewn and lytteltonwitch has added the logos and sent them up to Wellington; I’ve sorted out which books I’m taking…
LSOTM
Yep, it’s the last Sunday of the month again, so time for a breakfast meetup at Trattorie. Quite a good turnout, including two newbies: me, awhina, lytteltonwitch, non-fiction, and mecka-antics. We’ve been trading recipes with mecka-antics via the BCNZ Yahoo list, because he’s just moved to Christchurch and started flatting, so I brought along my…
A capital weekend
As usual, when life is interesting enough to have plenty to write about, I’m too busy having an interesting life to write about it. Most of the interesting stuff has been work stuff (some good, some not so good), so not worth writing about, but the weekends have been pretty fun-filled in themselves, starting with…