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Scrappy bits
So much for my good intentions of regularly posting to my blog – that seems to have fallen by the wayside a bit! Partly because I’ve been busy (last week I went to Toastmasters on Tuesday night, my craft group on Thursday night, and a union Rainbow Te Kahukura function on Friday night. And this…
Winning all the things
ast night my Toastmasters group had a quiz night. My team maintained a respectable second place up until the second last round. When the quiz leader announced that the theme of the round was flags, there was a loud exclamation of glee from the teenage member of our team, the child of one of the…
Oops, I think I just volunteered
ou know how I keep saying I’m not going to volunteer for anything else, and that I’ve got way too much going on in my life already and can’t add anything more? Yeah, I totally fail at that. I can’t help it – people ask me to help out with things and I say yes…
Final countdown
Do do do do, do do do-do dooo… sorry, accidentally segued into bad 80s music there. But I’m all packed, the house is tidy, I’ve left a note for my house-sitter, and in an hour or so Lytteltonwitch will turn up and we’ll be off to the airport. And about 35 hours and 5 airports…
It's been a while
Usual excuses – too busy doing stuff to write about it (though I did make a few more videos, which may have contributed to the lack of blog posts – videos are fun to make, but incredibly time-consuming to edit, and by the time I’ve sat at the computer for long enough to do that,…
Tohoku 2011
oday was almost entirely filled with meetings. One was a very interesting meeting though – we were visited by a researcher from Tokyo, who is studying the experiences of disabled people in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, so has come to Christchurch to compare our situation with Tohoku’s. The Tohoku earthquake was only a…