Visual depictions of the aftershocks

We ended up having quite an expedition this morning. I wanted to get the fusing web stuff for that patchwork project I was working on (that got laid aside when the Outlaws arrived), so we had intended to catch the bus to Hands (a fantastic craft shop that I avoid shopping in, because I tend…

Yes, the oblique hint in last night’s entry *did* indicate that awhina and the Invercargillite are engaged. I was sent home from the meetup with instructions that I wasn’t to tell lytteltonwitch directly, but instead I had to list the books awhina had brought in my diary, and see if lytteltonwitch guessed when she read…

The taxi dropped us off a few doors away from the pub, and Hawkette and I struggled to carry our own heavy bags, plus Lytteltonwitch’s bag of books (Lytteltonwitch was under strict instructions from her doctor not to carry any heavy bags this weekend, so I’d promised to play pack horse for her), plus the…

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,…

I definitely can’t compete with Kimi’s fantastic needlework, but here’s the latest progress report on the topiary garden: This final tree is proving as fiddly and annoying as predicted, with loads of colour changes (it only uses 5 shades of green for the leafy part I’m doing at the moment, but it still manages to…

Christmas approacheth fast, and I even went to a nativity play on Sunday… well, sort of a nativity play – meerkitten invited me along to watch her Sunday School’s Christmas play, which was actually four plays: three different versions of the nativity story with modern twists, and a story about christmas trees that Meerkitten starred…