The mystery is solved!
The phantom marmite deliverer was Rarsberry. Thanks!
oday marks 11 years since I joined Bookcrossing. Not that I’ve done a huge amount of bookcrossing in the last year or three – I got out of the habit with the earthquakes and never really got back to it. Not having any other active bookcrossers in the area doesn’t help much either. I’d blame…
Thanks to the generous allocation of University Holidays around this time of year, plus of course quite a few Public Holidays, and the judicious use of a couple of days’ leave, I’ve got a whole two weeks off work. And much needed it is too, after a very busy few months (that break in October…
The sky was doing overly dramatic things this morning. Unfortunately, it was doing most of its drama in a direction that I couldn’t get a decent view of from the back yard, and I wasn’t sufficiently dressed yet to walk up the street in search of a better viewing spot, so that was the best…
y potential cold remains at bay, so I decided to use my day off to attend a few writers’ festival events. The first was a talk by psychologist Michael Corballis about his new pop-psychology book The Wandering Mind. It’s based on the idea that letting your mind wander is actually a good thing, because that’s…
onsidering this is supposed to be a blog about bookcrossing, I don’t actually mention bookcrossing very often. Possibly something to do with the fact that I don’t do bookcrossing very often these days (in fact, I even discovered today that I’ve been without wings for quite some time, which never used to happen!) I’m not…
eard the sad news this morning that Terry Pratchett has died. I’m sure I won’t be the only fan feeling slightly guilty that my first thought was the selfish “but I want more books!” Even though I’ve known every book since his diagnosis in 2007 could potentially be his last, there’s always been that irrational…