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PÅwhiri
ight, I promised you a description of Tuesday’s pÅwhiri. It was due to start at 9.30, but we were instructed to be there at least 15 minutes early, because once the pÅwhiri gets started, it’s incredibly rude to interrupt it, so basically, if you’re late, you miss out (and as missing the pÅwhiri would have…
9 Years
I realised this morning that it’s my BC Birthday – 9 years exactly since I joined Bookcrossing! So I quickly filled a bag with books, and between walking to work, a quick trip to Riccarton in my lunchbreak, and walking home, I managed to release 20 books in honour of the day. I couldn’t theme…
Even more random than usual
pring is still a month or two away, but it was making its eventual presence known today with blue skies and a lovely warm nor’wester (this is the only time of year when anyone in Christchurch would ever describe a nor’wester as “lovely”!!). It was rumoured to have reached 20 degrees mid-afternoon – we certainly…
Emerging, blinking, into the light
No, your eyes are not deceiving you, I’m actually writing a blog post. And that can only mean one thing: I finished my thesis!!!!! I managed to finish the bulk of the writing on Tuesday, then spent the rest of the week proof-reading and checking all the little details, and submitted it yesterday afternoon –…
The big reveal
The mystery quilt has been handed over to its recipient, so now I can show it off here: Given the subject matter, no prizes for guessing who it went to – Lytteltonwitch of course. When I saw the fabric (everything inside the inner purple border is a single panel of fabric) I knew I had…
Challenging
‘m feeling pretty proud of myself – I actually managed to write a little javascript app that works!  Doesn’t do anything particularly useful, but that can come later ð The more important thing is, it won me a challenge set by one of my workmates. Because we’re all at different levels of ability as far…