Protected: No real news yet

Meetup tonight, at South of the Border. I haven’t been there for years, and unfortunately it wasn’t as good as it used to be. Otakuu (who’s up in Christchurch visiting family) seemed impressed by her dessert, though, described in the menu as a “Prickly Dick”:

Well I did start out with great intentions of getting back to work on one of my many half-finished cross-stitch projects, but as always, digging through the trunk was fatal, and the temptation of starting something new became all too much. So I’ve now got yet another project on the go. It is quite a…

I think someone had a fireworks party in the park the other night: One of the things I’m really enjoying about doing NoNoNoNo is all the playing with The Gimp I’ve been doing. Pretty much every photo I’ve posted has been photoshopped in some way – some just a bit of cropping or colour adjustment,…

A mass release takes a lot of preparation to be successful, so I spent a large chunk of the weekend getting ready for next weekend’s 150th birthday celebrations, registering and labelling books the books I got at last weekend’s booksale. (And that’s how you fit far too many weekends into one sentence). I even created…

So, can you guess what it is yet? 🙂 I’m quite pleased with the background pattern now that there’s more of it visible. I was a bit disappointed with it at first, because it was supposed to subtly reinforce the octagon theme, but once I’d started stitching I realised that you couldn’t really tell they…

As we paid for our lunch yesterday, the waitress asked us where we were off to today. Probably a standard question, given that we were at a cafe in Springfield, a town whose only claim to fame (other than the giant pink doughnut) is that it’s on the way to a lot of places. But…