Rarsberry's pressie

I’d left for work by the time Moem and Rubberchicken departed for their bike tour, but Lytteltonwitch was here to see them off, and grabbed my camera to take a few photos of the departing adventurers (complete with clogs, which are of course essential equipment for any biking holiday):

This bit’s friends only, because it contains a bit too much identifying information. One of the reasons I’ve been too busy to post anything lately is that all my good intentions of not taking on anything extra this year, and of just having a quiet life and looking after myself, kind of collapsed when I…

Warning: the following will definitely fall into the “too much information” category for some of you. Feel free to skip down to the cute cat picture. Quite a few years ago, I spent six months in Africa. A fantastic experience, but one of the downsides was contracting bacillic dysentery. As well as almost killing me,…

It’s amazing how emotionally invested you can get in an on-line community like DearDiary. I’ve been a bit slack lately about keeping up with reading diaries, so this morning I decided to catch up with some of them. I was clicking through the notify emails and came to one from someone whose diary is friends…

I got my first catch for 2007 on Monday! It was one of the books I released in Wellington, Internal Affairs by Jill Tweedie. And the finder joined Bookcrossing, too! Let’s hope that’s an omen of lots of successful releases this year. I’ve had a very productive day today, plus a very very long walk….