Protected: Returned to life

We must be the only country in the world where the overwhelming emotion towards our national day is a vague sense of embarrassment. Most New Zealanders, if we stop to consider Waitangi Day at all (other than as a day off work and a chance to head to the beach and make the most of…

So, can you guess what it is yet? 🙂 I’m quite pleased with the background pattern now that there’s more of it visible. I was a bit disappointed with it at first, because it was supposed to subtly reinforce the octagon theme, but once I’d started stitching I realised that you couldn’t really tell they…

Warning: the following will definitely fall into the “too much information” category for some of you. Feel free to skip down to the cute cat picture. Quite a few years ago, I spent six months in Africa. A fantastic experience, but one of the downsides was contracting bacillic dysentery. As well as almost killing me,…

There are a few pleasant side effects to MrPloppy being out of work. One I particularly enjoy is the fact that he does all the housework, so that I come home from work to a clean house and dinner prepared – I can suddenly see why men have always been so keen on women being…

Ok, so I still haven’t finished writing up my diary entries for Sydney (it’s not the writing that’s slowing me down, it’s the uploading all the photos), but I just got an email telling me that one of the books I released there has been caught and journalled! And not only caught and journalled, but…

Somewhere in southern Texas Yesterday was the first day that’s been mostly boring, but it did have its highlights. The main aim of the day was just getting from Lubbock to San Antonio – a very long trip mostly across more wide flat plains with not a lot to see. Just outside Lubbock was a…