The mystery is solved!
The phantom marmite deliverer was Rarsberry. Thanks!
EISMIC has been shortlisted for the NZ Open Source Awards, so we’ve been invited to the awards dinner in Wellington. None of the bosses are available to go, so today they asked if I’d like to go in their place, and take one of the team with me. So I get to go to a fancy…
he parade of end-of-year functions continues, with our team going out for lunch today. Yes, I know we already had a Christmas party last week, but this was our “official” Christmas function, with our boss shouting us lunch. It was a very nice lunch, in a new cafe that’s opened up recently near campus, and…
Life took an interesting turn on Friday. For the past few months, I’ve been getting increasingly run-down feeling, and had a few random low-grade symptoms I’d put down to stress (including, on the eve of the conference I presented at a couple of weeks ago, my already bad eyesight getting exponentially worse – but, you…
I think Mum is having as much fun with my new patchwork/quilting obsession as I am – she keeps sending me little packages of fabric to feed my ever-growing stash. Yesterday a parcel arrived from her via Trademe, with this fantastic selection: None of the pieces are huge, but they don’t need to be for…
ecember is suddenly upon us, and the round of Christmas/end of year functions has started – I’ve already been to three, and it’s only the 9th. One was combined with a farewell – Jan, a very-like-minded colleague from another department, is leaving to set up a tea shop in a gap-filler space in the CBD. …
I didn’t have time to post these the other night, but here’s a few photos from the afternoon at Little River. Pretty much the essence of summer: I would be incredibly jealous of their house, which is a lovely wee cottage in the classic NZ early settlers style, but then I remember how far they…