Coping

I just spent half an hour writing a long and interesting entry, and somehow when I was just a few sentences away from finishing it, managed to accidentally hit some key combination equivalent to the Back button which wiped it all! Not fair!!!! Once I have regained my composure I will attempt to recreate my…

Tonight after work I met lytteltonwitch in town, and she gave me a lift over to Beckenham to pick up the second lot of books I’d won on Trade Me. Again, a very mixed bag: The Diary of Anne Frank Duncton Wood by William Horwood Duncton Rising by William Horwood Angel Hunt by mike Ripley…

Total: 154 books January (14) The Ghost Drum by Susan Price The Rotters’ Club by Jonathan Coe (library audio book) xxxHOLiC, Volume 6 by CLAMP (graphic novel) End in Tears by Ruth Rendell (audio book, abridged) Politics 101 by Anna Smith The Adventures of the Railway Cat by Phyllis Arkle Extreme Office Crafts by Jimmy…

After a couple of miserable days of rain (one of which I spent sitting in my office with damp feet because the @#$% of a bus-driver stopped the bus in such a position that I could only get on by wading through a huge puddle), the sun finally came out today, so I decided to…

Phew! Just in time! MrPloppy is going to take it in to town to the framers tomorrow, and hopefully they’ll be able to get it all stretched and framed by the end of next week. He’s in a bit of a panic because I’ve left the final decisions on the mat colour and frame up…

My turn to play "guess what I’m cross-stitching": [album 128913 301005embr1.jpg] I haven’t been doing any embroidery lately (yet another hobby to fall by the wayside while life has been busy), but yesterday I’d been studying for most of the afternoon (only one week until my big Spanish exam!) and wanted to do something other…