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.
ith the emphasis on the loco… In a couple of hours, we’re off to the airport to pick up the Nephews for their first proper solo visit (is it solo when there’s two of them? duo visit?). We’ve had Nephew #1 stay once before, but that was only for a night, and Dad had brought…
ust very very busy. I’ve got a month to go before my final project is due for my LING paper, and it’s absorbing almost every spare moment. I am trying to stick to my rule of at least taking an afternoon off every weekend so I can catch up with friends or do something relaxing,…
Dad was in town yesterday, so I took advantage of having access to a vehicle to go round a few places over on Blenheim Road and investigate wood burners (as my one has been declared too old to live by the dreaded ECAN, so I need to replace it before next winter or face a…
hildren are a thing of wonder. As in, I wonder how on earth they managed to get jam on that? Dad and the kids went home this morning, and my plan had been to spend the day cleaning the house (it definitely needs it – those kids have an amazing ability to generate mess, and…
emember ages ago Lytteltonwitch and I were down in Alexandra, and I said we’d greatly amused ourselves by walking backwards out of a maze, and I promised to show you a video? And then I didn’t? Well, finally I managed to get the video edited (mainly just removing the “um, I think I’m recording, I’m…
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…