Coping

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Down in Alexandra for a few days visiting family, but that didn’t stop me creating my now-traditional Bookcrossing Christmas tree last night. It’s just in a slightly different location than usual 🙂 Mum (TopKat) came and helped me hang the books, and was terrified we were going to get in trouble for it, especially when…

(You can see I was running out of ideas at the end, can’t you?) And that’s the lot! (Although I’m having nightmares of suddenly discovering yet another bag of notebooks lurking somewhere in the study (when the various stationery shops had their “Back to School” sales earlier in the year, they were selling the notebooks…

We actually had a whole day without an aftershock yesterday! According to geonet here was a 3.4 at 10.32 on Saturday night, then nothing significant until 12.30 this morning, when we had a 4.6 (which actually woke me up – normally I’ve been sleeping through everything less than a 5, but it was quite shallow…

(for the last couple of days, anyway). The mess creative process: The outcome (so far): Plus I’ve got about another 40 notebooks covered that now just need to be decorated.

Ok, you knew I wouldn’t be able to resist finding something new to occupy my time now that the convention is over. Actually, I’ve found two new hobbies which both look like being suitable time-sinks. First is a new web-based hobby (well, new for NZ, anyway): Markeroni. It’s basically searching for historic places and markers…