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It must be Cup Day
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On one of the cold and miserable days last week, I overheard someone say “At least it’s sure to be hot next Tuesday, it’s Cup Day.” Normally I would have dismissed that as pure superstition, but it’s true – no matter how bad the weather has been, the second Tuesday in November is always a…
The best laid plans of diarists… (and the time zone saga)
I was going to post a short photo-essay of a release I just did, but my first attempt to log in to the HamiPiks site was unsuccessful (basically, it won’t let me past the terms and conditions page), and of course, Steve posted a message the other day saying that support requests won’t be answered…
Meetup and Halloween releases
Our regular last Sunday of the month Breakfast Meetup was this morning. As usual, we met at Trattorie, where Libragirl has set up an OCZ. Not a huge turnout today, just me, Lytteltonwitch, her ex-husband (who’s acting as her chauffeur at the moment), and Awhina, but we had a nice breakfast, swapped a few books,…
All the eights
8/8/08 today, so of course I had to release 8 books at 8 am (well, around 8 am – actually I released them between about 7.45 and 8.30 on my way to work, but releasing all 8 on the dot of 8 would have been a bit impractical): David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Surfacing by…
Busy bookcrossing
The last week or so has been filled with bookcrossing. First there was gwilk‘s birthday party, which strictly had nothing to do with bookcrossing, but lytteltonwitch and I managed to turn it into a bookcrossing event by releasing a pile of books at the party suited to its space theme: Time and Stars by Poul…