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The other thing that died this week, apart from the phone, was our DVD player. No idea why, but it was a super-cheap no-brand $50 model that was just over a year old (and had a one-year warranty, what a surprise), so I suspect planned obsolescence had something to do with it. That or the…

Yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month, so should have been meetup night, but the general consensus after discussion on the BCNZ Yahoo group was that most people’s social calendars were already full, December being December, so we decided to postpone and have a brunch next Saturday instead. But yesterday morning I sent a…

Bright and early on Sunday morning (ok, so it was 9 am again, but by this stage we’d had so many late nights that 9 felt *very* early), lytteltonwitch picked us up and took us into town, where our bus was waiting for us. We met the driver and his family (who we’d invited along…

Well, Christmas is over for another year. We had a pleasant Christmas – not a lot of presents (well, apart from the major present of a new computer which we bought ourselves, but we’ve had that for a few weeks now, so the novelty is wearing off), but we had a lovely day mostly just…

I wasn’t totally happy with the lettering – I didn’t have time to properly graph out my own lettering, so I just copied an alphabet from a book – it didn’t look too bad on paper, but didn’t look great once I’d sewn it. Unfortunately, by the time I realised that, it was too late…

We’ve been back from Alexandra for nearly a week now, and I don’t know where the time went. Ok, the first couple of days went on entertaining Nephew#1, who came back with us. We’ve been promising him for years that when he got old enough he could come for a visit on his own, so…