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I still haven’t heard anything from the travel agent – I suspect our complicated intersecting itineraries are causing her some headaches 😉 Maybe on Monday… I have, however, heard back from Deidre, the President of Bookcrossing Singapore. I’d sent an email about a week ago to the contact they have listed on their website, but…
You Vill Haf Fun!
On Saturday one of the local schools held a Community Fun Day (which MrPloppy reckons sounds like something that would be held in a totalitarian state: “Ve vill haf a community fun day and you vill haf fun! Zere vill be laughink and singink and enjoyment! You must haf fun now!”), and gwilk arranged to…
The kittens in situ
I finally got round to getting a piece of ribbon (well, actually I finally got round to asking MrPloppy to getting some for me when he was in town the other day) so I could finish off the Christmas Kittens. I’ve still got to get a brass ring to put on the ribbon to hang…
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…
What I read in 2007
Total = 123 books January (14) The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir by Bill Hayes The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith Eldest by Christopher Paolini (borrowed from meerkitten) The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (library audio book) A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy The…
Hail and well met
We were woken last night at around midnight by a very dramatic thunderstorm, with almost continuous thunder and lightning, and incredibly heavy hail (they said on the news today that there were marble-sized hailstones – I wasn’t going outside to check!) In the morning, there were still patches of unmelted hail on the ground –…