Protected: On the sick list

Back again. The quick trip into town to drop off DVDs expanded slightly to include stopping off at The Coffee Club to drop off a few more books, and in Riccarton to go to Nature’s Discoveries to finish off the Christmas shopping (what do you mean you’re supposed to finish your Christmas shopping before Christmas?…

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…

Welshamethyst (very closely followed by texaswren, madame urushiol, and KiwiKimi – easy to spot which of my friends list have an interest in antiques!), who spotted the distinctive swirls of an old Singer sewing machine:

Auckland airport, sitting at the departure gate. Ok, Auckland is officially evil. I knew I had 2 hours between flights, so once I’d walked from domestic to international (and may just have released a book on the way :-)) I went through passport control, then completed the important mission of buying a NZ flag (well,…

Well that turned into a busy sort of day. It started with a breakfast meetup at Trattorie, attended by me, lytteltonwitch, awhina, Mr awhina, meerkitten and giraffe02, and angela7715. As always, London and the Bookcrossing World Tour were the main topics of conversation, plus the clean up of the database (who knew a simple question…

A couple of weeks ago, I spotted a release alert from microsquid seeming to indicate she was in Christchurch, so I PMed her and invited her to meet the local bookcrossers. She replied that she’d just left Christchurch, but would be coming back through this week, so we arranged to have a meetup last night….