Visual depictions of the aftershocks

Well, we’re back from our trip down south, have covered an unfeasible number of kilometres in the last three days, successfully (finally) accomplished our mission of delivering the hug box to Otakuu, and generally had a great (but exhausting) time. I’ve got hundreds of photos (literally – I had to buy a new memory card…

In my old diary, I used to post recipes from time to time. As I haven’t done that for a while (in fact, never in this diary, I think?), I thought yesterday that as I was going to bake something to take to a games evening at the Gwilks’ last night, it would be fun…

Actually, who cares about you, I’m feeling sleepy! After Dad and Stepmother left for the airport yesterday morning, I played around on the internet for a while, then tried going back to bed, but by the time I finally got back to sleep I only got about an hour before I had to get up…

It looks like I can go to Spain after all! The travel agent did some more juggling, and if I fly Bilbao-Madrid-London-Chicago, there’s no problem. It means a couple more hours on a plane, and even more hours sitting around in airports, but considering how many hours I’m going to be doing that anyway on…

Another thing I haven’t had time to do a lot of lately is cross-stitch. So last night while we were catching up on watching some of the many things we’ve videoed over the last couple of months but never found time to watch, I made a start on the third tree (or eskimo) of my…

We were running a bit late, so littlemave suggested that instead of the others waiting for us, they should set out, and we’d head them off at the pass (for once I could see the value of cellphones!). [And now I illustrate the danger of leaving writing your diary for a couple of weeks, because…