Goodbye Saffy

Thursday 3.40 pm I’d originally envisioned spending today exploring and maybe hitting a museum or art gallery. Instead, I sat in the Chinese Gardens reading until nearly 2 – still, that’s what a holiday is all about 🙂 I sat in this pavillion for a bit, until I looked up and noticed the spiders living…

Dad and Stepmother came back from Australia on Saturday. They were staying the night at Stepsister’s house this time instead of with us, but they dropped in at our place to pick up their car (which they’d left at our place to avoid paying for long-term parking at the airport – what with Brother’s car…

[Note: this diary entry is a copy of an article I have submitted to the Bookcrossing.com newsletter.] What do you do with 75 Reader’s Digest Condensed Books? If you’re a Bookcrosser, then the answer is easy: “Release them!” But if you’re lytteltonwitch, you come up with something a lot more creative… Exactly why she was…

Another long day of meetings, but it’s over now, so that means I’m officially on holiday! I’ve got tomorrow off to sort out all those last minute bits and pieces of packing, then on Friday afternoon I’m off to the USA!!!! I seem to keep adding new things to my “things to do before I…

I think this is the plate in the photo. From memory it came out of a bargain bin of assorted loose crockery at the Warehouse (a very cheap chain kind of similar to Walmart), and doesn’t have anything as sophisticated as a maker’s mark – all it says on the bottom is “Made in China”….

Total: 154 books January (14) The Ghost Drum by Susan Price The Rotters’ Club by Jonathan Coe (library audio book) xxxHOLiC, Volume 6 by CLAMP (graphic novel) End in Tears by Ruth Rendell (audio book, abridged) Politics 101 by Anna Smith The Adventures of the Railway Cat by Phyllis Arkle Extreme Office Crafts by Jimmy…