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I forgot to mention the other wonderful thing that happened yesterday: a parcel arrived from Fuzzle (Ming and Saffy’s previous owner, now living in the UK). In it were a few yummy things (like jaffa cakes, the main thing MrPloppy misses since moving here), and my birthday present (yes, my birthday was months ago, but…
Long weekend
Waitangi Day tomorrow, so I decided to take today off as well and turn this into a long weekend so that I can actually get myself vaguely organised for the convention. I did have good intentions of getting up at my normal weekday time this morning and start work on convention stuff right away to…
It worked!!!
One of the books I labelled in the Dunedin backpackers’ has just been released in Italy!!!
Goodbye Saffy
Just back from the vet’s. Saffy has been weakening for the last couple of weeks, and last night she took a turn for the worse, so we had her put to sleep this morning. Goodbye Saffy. I’ll write more later. ^ ^00=+=^
Just a quick update
to say I’m still alive (don’t worry Mum, it was just a cold, I wasn’t actually dying of pneumonia :-)), I’m in Maryland at Buffra’s parents’ place, and we’re about to hit the road on our American Road Trip. Brad Pitt here we come! 😉 Chicago was great, Ottawa was great, and the bits of…
Free books!
I continued my plan of releasing books around the campus this week – on Thursday I released Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and A Modern Comedy by John Galsworthy in the English Department, and on Friday I left The Loves and Journeys of Revolving Jones by Leslie Thomas in the Commerce department, and The Archivist…