Protected: What a difference a day makes

I’ve had a very productive day today. I spent most of the morning and a large chunk of the afternoon making a present for TheLetterB, whose sproglet is due any day now (which is why this post is friends-only – I’ll make it public once the sproglet has made his/her appearance and received the present)….

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been hearing mysterious thuds and bangs whenever I’ve been in the bathroom. The alleyway fence is just outside the bathroom window, so I just assumed it was kids walking down the alleyway kicking at the fence or something, but the weird thing was I never heard any voices…

Another busy day showing our visiting bookcrossers around Christchurch. Way too early this morning discoverylover and I walked over to Trattorie, where we met lytteltonwitch and Sherlockfan, and shortly after were joined by awhina and family, rarsberry and VivaRichie, and TheLetterB (looking very bumpy) and her mother. The table was positively groaning with books (even…

The Outlaws finally flew back to the UK yesterday afternoon. It’s been lovely having them here, but 5 weeks is a very long time to have visitors (especially when you’ve given up your bed for them!) and I must admit by last week I was getting impatient for them to leave. I feel a bit…

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…

We had our “second Tuesday of the month” meetup tonight, despite this only being the first Tuesday of November. That’s because last year we were caught out by the second Tuesday of November being Cup Day, when everyone in Christchurch who’s anyone (and most of the people who aren’t anyone) goes to the races and…