Greetings from Takaka
The witch and I are in Golden Bay for the weekend, having very many adventures and with limited wifi, so you’ll have to wait until I get home to hear them, and to see all the photos.
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Six jars of cherry and apple chutney. So I’ve got no housework done (except for cleaning the kitchen to remove all the stickiness – the cutlery drawer hasn’t been this tidy in ages!), but I reckon I’ve had a pretty productive weekend 🙂
Speechifying
iving a speech tonight at Toastmasters – it’s my 6th speech, so that means I’ll be more than half way to my first qualification. I’m definitely seeing a benefit from attending (as well as having met new cool and interesting people, of course) – even though giving a speech is still nerve-wracking, I’m getting a…
Happy Christmas Eve
ent to the supermarket this morning (yeah, I know, bad move on Christmas Eve, but it wasn’t actually as crowded as I expected – I didn’t even have to queue for a checkout) to grab a few things for tomorrow, and apparently there’s a world-wide raspberry shortage. Or, at least, a Christchurch-wide one. The supermarket…
From my travel journal: Sunday, 25 March, 1 am: Abu Dhabi
Against all expectations, I actually fell asleep on the plane, somewhere over Alice Springs (I’d been hoping to see Uluru/Ayer’s Rock, as the map originally showed us passing almost overhead, but we ended up veering further north, so it was lost in the haze). I woke up as we crossed the coast and hit a…
Misplaced sympathy
here is a woman at work who thinks she is my great friend. In fact, I find her a bit of a pain, but my polite tolerance is apparently interpreted by her as close friendship. Anyway, she’s also got it into her head that I am utterly bereft and lonely ever since the separation and…
…and a tortoise
As promised, a few photos from yesterday: