Look what just arrived

I promised myself I wouldn’t just take photos for this project, but would force myself to dust off my art supplies, and despite my total lack of confidence in my abilities, put the result on public display. So here’s my first attempt, the product of a pleasant few minutes sitting in the garden. I’m not…

I got some really interesting responses to yesterday’s entry – maybe I should be philosophical more often… However this entry is not going to be at all philosophical. Instead, it’s going to feature movies and chocolate 🙂 “Chick Flicks” had its inaugural movie night last night. We went to see Mad Hot Ballroom, which is…

Poor Saffy! She doesn’t know it yet, but she’s off to the vet today. I noticed a few days ago that she kept licking and biting at a spot on her back, but thought she must just have had a flea or something and didn’t think anything more of it. But last night MrPloppy noticed…

Ok, I don’t normally talk politics here, but this is kind of important, so I’m cross-posting it, in the hope that some of my NZ friends see it: This weekend there will be rallies in the four main centres protesting the changes the government wants to make to employment law. There are a whole raft…

The first part of our bookcrossing adventure was picking Wombles up from the airport on Wednesday night. We had it all planned: lytteltonwitch would pick me up just before 9 pm, we’d collect Wombles from the airport at 9, and then come back to my place where Wombles and lytteltonwitch were staying the night. The…

I felt a bit guilty yesterday that I wasn’t more upset than I was, but really, I’ve known this was coming for a few months, so I’d already said my goodbyes to Saffy in my head, and yesterday was just the final step of the journey. She’d lost a lot of weight over the winter…