hursday afternoons are geek-out time for the CEISMIC team. That’s when we have what we call our “Wizard Club” (because programming seems very much like magic when you’re learning it) – a combination of staff training and R&D time, which we use for things like building handy apps and tools to improve our workflow, sharing…
k, ignore everything you’ve ever read or seen about how spending Christmas alone is a terrible thing. It’s not – in fact, it’s been a very pleasant experience. Of course, it probably helps that I’ve never really thought of Christmas as that big a deal anyway. Yes, I have a lot of fun decorating the…
Mojosmom’s suggestion of a peach cobbler sent me off to Google. I’d only ever encountered cobblers in fiction, but Google quickly turned up a plethora of recipes, all completely different. In the end I found one that seemed to resemble what she’d described, so (after a bit of tweaking to adapt it to metric measurements,…
One of the fun bits about quilting is once you’ve got your main pieces made, and have a million possible ways to put them together into bigger blocks. I started playing around with a few options for the Three Dudes block this morning, and there were so many possibilities! I was tempted by this pinwheel…
That was cool. We just had the edge of a huge thunderstorm pass over (from the look of things, the main part went right over the city centre) – loads of thunder and lightning, which lasted about half an hour, and then, just as the lightning was dying down, we heard a strange roaring in…
Christchurch people (and anyone else who just likes to help preserve cool historic things): If any of you have fond memories of visiting the telescope in the Arts Centre Observatory on a Friday night, you might want to contribute to this fundraiser to help restore the telescope. It was badly damaged when the building collapsed…
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That looks yummy! I’ve never had any other chutney besides plain old “Fruit chutney” from Coles.