t was the neighbours. When I left the house this morning, the green bin was sitting out on the roadside, filled to the brim with branches from the tree I saw the neighbours cutting down at the weekend. As were all my other neighbours’ bins. They’d obviously run out of room in their own bin and “borrowed” everyone else’s. Oh well, at least they returned it before I rang the council to report it stolen. Would have been nice if they’d left a note, though…
I was planning on doing some more work on the next bird today (it’s been kind of on hiatus while I was sick, because I couldn’t concentrate well enough), but then I got inspired to make a mug rug as a quick present for Judy, a colleague who’s retiring on Tuesday. Yeah, you know where…
I had to go into town for a meeting on Thursday (it still amazes me that I have the sort of job now where I get to have meetings – and not the sort where I’m only there to take minutes!), and on the way back to work I passed a sign for Scorpios‘ newly…
arvestbird, the miniest mini-Harvestbird and I had planned to go to Dorothy’s this afternoon for tea and scones and cucumber sandwiches, but alas when we got to Cranmer Square there was no sign of the little green caravan. So we went to the Coffee House instead, in anticipation of cake. Unfortunately, in their reinvention they’ve…
In just the few hours since I posted, the fires have got worse. They’re evacuating some of the hill suburbs, and the smoke is coming from a huge swath across the hills now – I was just at a function on the 6th floor of another campus building, which has an unimpeded view across the…
D’s been down again, so of course I’ve spent the last day and a half composing all sorts of interesting and amusing blog posts in my head, and now that it’s back up I can’t remember any of them. So instead, a few highlights of the past few days: On Friday I discovered that there…
o Sideshow Bob is now Sir Bob, apparently for services to “looking good on TV”. It certainly can’t be for services to Christchurch – he and his council did nearly as much damage to this city as the earthquakes themselves. But of course it’s very much in the government’s interests to keep up the pretence…