My craftwork made the papers!

(Yes, I’m finally getting round to writing up the rest of the trip…) The weather hadn’t improved greatly the next day, and the forecast wasn’t looking good for the southern part of the island, so Stepfather suggested we give Fiordland a miss and just head straight for Dunedin. But I argued that Fiordland is probably…

As I may or may not have mentioned, MrPloppy‘s parents are arriving next week from the UK for a month’s visit (they won’t actually be staying with us for the whole month, because they’re going to do a bit of touring around the country, but they’ll be using our place as a base). It’s the…

After finally gaining entrance to the apartment, we set out with Littlemave and the Tinymaves for the first conference session of the day – a flashmob at the Opera House. We were running late, so caught a train down to the harbour (and I released The Secret Hide-Out by John Peterson on the platform), and…

Today’s been the first properly hot day we’ve had this summer (according to the metservice, the high was 33 degrees, and it’s still about 32 now, at 6.30 pm). Poor George has spent the day collapsing in one patch of shade after another, trying to find one that’s actually cool. Not a good day to…

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…

I can’t remember now how it came up in conversation, but a while back lytteltonwitch and I discovered that neither of us had ever been over Danseys Pass. Which was all the excuse we needed to plan a trip over there for Show Weekend. As seems to be all too common lately, I was nowhere…