Can you guess what it is yet?

I liked this depiction of the number of aftershocks from The Press this afternoon: Or there’s the animated version.

I felt a bit guilty yesterday that I wasn’t more upset than I was, but really, I’ve known this was coming for a few months, so I’d already said my goodbyes to Saffy in my head, and yesterday was just the final step of the journey. She’d lost a lot of weight over the winter…

Sapphy discovered something important tonight: cats and curry shouldn’t mix. Every so often my ESOL student makes a bit extra of whatever they’re having for dinner and gives me some to take home for me and MrPloppy. Tonight’s dish was a rather spicy lamb curry. Really tasty, but with quite a bite. Sapphy could obviously…

I am being incredibly brave here – I’ve passed up the safe (and expensive!) option of a hotel breakfast and ventured out on my own to find somewhere to eat. Not very far, admittedly – just across the street to the Metro station where there are various little shops and fast food places. But still,…

A quick entry, mostly just to upload a picture of the completed third tree of my topiary picture. Only one more to go now! (Unfortunately, it’s the hardest one, with loads of fiddly fractionals. I’ve been kind of dreading getting to this point…) Most of my free time over the last week or so has…

(Yes, as usual I’m way behind with the actual writing about a convention, but in the meantime, here’s a list of books…) Friday night BBQAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThe Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark TwainRelic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln ChildSleepers by Lorenzo CarcaterraSpook by Mary RoachThe Street of a Thousand Blossoms by…