Goodbye Saffy

Just back from a very pleasant afternoon spent with Kimi and MrKimi. They were passing through Christchurch, and rang to say they were at Mona Vale, so we quickly hopped on a bus to join them there. I’d said I’d ring when we got there so we could find each other, but as I searched…

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…

And not just the weather. Once again, NZ has bucked international trends, and just when Australia finally got rid of Howard and voted in Labour, and America finally got rid of Bush and voted in a Democrat president, after 9 years of Labour we’ve swung back to the right. National + ACT = the most…

Welshamethyst asked “Do you put something in the front cover to urge people to read and release???” The short answer is “Yes, definitely!”. The long answer is that the options for labelling books are many and varied. Here’s just a few from the books that happened to be lying on my desk at the moment:…

The predicted hot weather sort of arrived, except it was under a blanket of low cloud, so it’s been horrible and muggy again all day. I hate muggy weather – it’s so draining. Oh well, it’s starting to look rather stormy out there now, and the wind’s come up, so with any luck we’ll have…

One year ago today, the people of Christchurch thought we’d had a disaster, but we had no idea how much worse it was going to get as the year progressed. Unbelievable really that it’s been a year – it seems like it was only yesterday, yet in another way it also seems like we’ve been…