Quick update

One year ago today, the people of Christchurch thought we’d had a disaster, but we had no idea how much worse it was going to get as the year progressed. Unbelievable really that it’s been a year – it seems like it was only yesterday, yet in another way it also seems like we’ve been…

The bags are finished at last! Yesterday morning lytteltonwitch and otakuu arrived bearing sewing machines and copious supplies of food, and we spent a very constructive day sewing and ironing (otakuu is an ironing champion!) and chatting and eating. Sometimes it felt like we were doing more chatting than sewing 🙂 but slowly the piles…

Finally got that Spanish exam out of the way (I think it went ok, but I’ll reserve judgement until I get my results in December) today, so I’m now feeling at a bit of a loose end. It’s not that I’ve got nothing to do, so much as that I’ve got a huge list of…

Just a bit (ok, quite a lot) of backstitch to go: In other news, the other day I got a catch for a book I released over a year ago. I haven’t been doing a lot of releasing lately – a combination of lack of time, lack of motivation, and horrible weather – so I…

Ok, I’ve just realised how long I’ve left it between entries. About time for an update. We’ve had two meetups since I last posted – in fact, we’re in the middle of a bit of a meetup marathon (not quite as much of a meetup marathon as I’ll be having in April, though – this…

Ok, so that walk yesterday was even more successful than I thought! I not only got a second catch (Jackson’s Dilemma by Iris Murdoch), but MrPloppy got a job out of one of the flyers I delivered! I still didn’t sleep particularly well, unfortunately 🙁 But at least everything else about the walk worked out….