This time next week…

I haven’t done a lot of work on my secret cross-stitch project lately, but it is slowly progressing. Kimi’s guess last time I posted a progress report was “A deformed snowman battling with a white rhinoceros?” Close, but not quite right 🙂

I had a very constructive day yesterday. After finishing as much of my patchwork project as I was able to, I took advantage of the fact that the sewing machine was out to patch a couple of favourite pairs of jeans. One pair had just a small hole, so I was able to patch it…

I know, I know, I’ve been so slack lately about updating my diary. And I can’t even remember all that I haven’t written about lately… I would have written up the trip to Dunedin, which was great fun, but I was waiting for lytteltonwitch to email me the photos she took of our Harry Potter…

It’s 7.30 am on Christmas morning, and I’m just waiting for MrPloppy to wake up so we can share the true meaning of Christmas: PRESSIES!!!! Anyway, Merry Christmas to all my DD friends (and to anyone else who’s passing :-)) – hope you all have a wonderful day (and if you don’t celebrate Christmas, just…

Sapphy discovered something important tonight: cats and curry shouldn’t mix. Every so often my ESOL student makes a bit extra of whatever they’re having for dinner and gives me some to take home for me and MrPloppy. Tonight’s dish was a rather spicy lamb curry. Really tasty, but with quite a bite. Sapphy could obviously…

Many moons ago, when I was at teacher’s college, we were taught to write lesson plans, and given the theory of what makes a good lesson. Of course, once I graduated and got into a real classroom, like every teacher I rapidly gave up on writing the lesson plans, partly through lack of time, and…