Can you guess what it is yet?

Saw Mum & stepfather briefly on Thursday – they were on their way up to the top of the North Island to SF’s brother’s birthday party, so left the car here rather than at the airport (we’re so close to the airport that it’s generally cheaper to get a taxi than to pay the airport…

Bother! I just wrote half of a long and hopefully interesting entry, then accidentally clicked on a link without opening a new tab in my browser, and lost everything. 🙁 I really hate it when that happens. When will I ever learn to write entries off-line first… Oh well, I’ll just have to try and…

When I started this diary, part of the aim was to spread the Bookcrossing word a bit. And it looks like it’s working. One of the stats that is recorded on your Bookcrossing bookshelf, along with things like how many books you’ve registered and released, is your “tell-a-friend referrals” – the number of people (or…

I got a great catch yesterday. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, which we released in the backpackers in Wellington in April, was picked up by someone in Te Puke. I’m so happy that one got caught – not just because it was such a good book so I’m glad someone else is enjoying it, but…

A few cool recent catches, all destined for exciting further travel: Gravity by Tess Gerritsen: a second anonymous finder catch, possibly by the same finder as the first one (it’s a bit hard to tell from the journal entries), but it’s now in Washington. Duncton Wood by William Horwood: released in Wellington in November, and…

The last day of the convention began at King George Square again. There was a market in the square where, while waiting to meet up with the other bookcrossers, I released They’re a Weird Mob by John O’Grady and found a face-painter to give me another ballycumber on my hand (it would have been more…