Goodbye Saffy

Ok, so it’s technically still 8 days until the *official* start of the NZBC convention, but it feels like it’s started, because I just met the first delegate to arrive, Mundoo. She’s come over from Australia a week early to do a bit of exploring of New Zealand before the actual convention, and she asked…

The Outlaws finally flew back to the UK yesterday afternoon. It’s been lovely having them here, but 5 weeks is a very long time to have visitors (especially when you’ve given up your bed for them!) and I must admit by last week I was getting impatient for them to leave. I feel a bit…

(Ok, so it took a while to get back to it, but here’s the rest of the story of our Mt Cook adventure…) As we left the main highway and headed up the road to Mt Cook the mountains got higher (well, steeper – we couldn’t see the tops of them in the clouds, so…

My holiday’s over already, and I only got half the things done I wanted to (isn’t that always the way?), but it’s been a good few days off anyway. I managed to get caught up with my reading for my linguistics course (plus knock a couple of books off Mt TBR), helped MrPloppy to tidy…

I got a great catch tonight – a book that’s been “missing in action” for more than two years! In October 2003 KiwiKat and I went on a releasing expedition to Akaroa. We had a lovely day over there, and released tonnes of books, but didn’t get very many catches. Well tonight I got an…

Saffy demonstrates a really comfortable sleeping position. [album 128913 041105saffy.jpg]