For Xanthi…

The battery died in my watch the other day, meaning that I discovered once again that I have absolutely no time sense. MrPloppy can always tell you roughly what time it is, even if he hasn’t looked at a clock for hours, but for me it could be any time at all. Which is an…

I had a very nice walk home from work this afternoon – it’s been a lovely sunny day with just enough of a breeze to cool things down nicely, so I walked home via the park and released a book (Dark Shinto by Dale Elvy) on one of the seats by the duck pond (where…

The dreaded jury duty this week… actually, I wasn’t really dreading it, although it’s one of those things you’re supposed to moan about. I was kind of looking forward to it, actually. The whole process of how justice works interests me, and I’d love to see the jury process from the inside, but this is…

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…

I had my oral exam for Spanish today, and it didn’t go well 🙁 I was really well prepared – I’d done loads of study, and had even worked out what I could say if the examiner asked all the most likely questions – but when I went into his office my mind went completely…