The mystery is solved!
The phantom marmite deliverer was Rarsberry. Thanks!
t’s starting to get a little lighter in the mornings now, and the sun is usually just starting to come up as I leave the house in the mornings. This morning as I was about to leave I noticed the sky was doing all sorts of pretty colours in the east, so I dashed back…
um went home yesterday. It’s weird to have an empty house again (but also nice – not that I didn’t enjoy her company, of course, and she’s the least imposing house guest ever, but I do like having the place to myself). Parsnips is not impressed at the sudden lack of knitting needles to play…
osting after midnight again, but I’ve decided it doesn’t count as skipping a day as long as I haven’t been to bed yet. Yeah, the logic is weak, but I’m allowed to make up the rules as I go along 🙂 The reason I’m posting so late is because Lytteltonwitch and I went out to…
In a dusty corner of our porch are three large stones, one for each cat buried in our backyard. Our section sits right on top of one of the gravel banks that criss-cross the Canterbury plains, left over from the Waimakariri’s meanderings, and the reason our suburb got off so lightly in the earthquakes. It’s…
Things that were good about today: I had lunch with Harvestbird, which is always enjoyable, and had the bonus today that she came bearing gifts: leftover birthday cake and a bag of blackboy peaches (terrible name, excellent peaches). My cold is, if a long way from gone, at least beginning to reduce in intensity. It…
The conference went really well – our talk seemed to be well-received (my boss was in the audience, along with at least three other people I know as experts in digital archiving, and all were nodding at the right places, so I don’t think I said anything too stupid 🙂 ), and (once the stress…