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It’s been dawning on me just how close October is getting, so I’ve been making a concerted effort to get on with my secret cross-stitch project. I managed to get quite a bit more done this weekend, so the deadline isn’t feeling quite as impossible now (though all that white is taking *so* long –…

I can finally upload Wednesday’s pictures: [album 128913 knight4.JPG thumblink] [album 128913 lady1.JPG thumblink] [album 128913 santa1.JPG thumblink] [album 128913 kittens1.JPG thumblink] [album 128913 alpha1.JPG thumblink] So, are they anything like you expected? Currently reading: Shadows From the Fire by Mary Ryan

Ok, here goes again. Hopefully this time I’ll manage to hit the right keys and not send this entry off into the ether somewhere. MrPloppy and I went down to Timaru with lytteltonwitch on Saturday for a meetup with the Timaru bookcrossers (well, Timaru bookcrosser – The-Organist is the only active bookcrosser in Timaru at…

Saturday 23 October 2010, 7.30 am Sitting outside a little cafe having croissant and hot chocolate for breakfast – how cosmopolitan 🙂 Wombles had arranged to meet Awaywithfairies at the evil bookshop – which truly is evil – just standing outside it while we were waiting for her I somehow managed to buy a book!…

The stress and lack of sleep is really starting to hit. Yesterday was probably my worst day – we had a couple of really big aftershocks at about midnight which really spooked me, so another night of very little sleep, and despite there being only a handful of aftershocks during the day, I was on…

Still somewhere in New Mexico, about 50 miles from the Texas border Stopped for lunch in Roswell. Aliens are their only tourist attraction, so they make the most of it. As well as the “official” UFO museum there are half a dozen gift shops (or “UFO and Alien Stuff” shops, as several were called) posing…