Thinking about Nepal
Just finished writing a blog post for our CEISMIC blog about the Nepal earthquake, so rather than re-cover the same ground here, I’ll just post a link.
ell, so much for all the things I kept telling myself I’d do as soon as I was finished with studying for the year. All that time when I had no time for anything but work and study, I was so looking forward to having the time to read real books, and do massive craft…
Lytteltonwitch and I spent the weekend in Oamaru, where they were holding their annual Steampunk Festival. We didn’t dress up ourselves, but we did go to a few of the events. I think what was most fun though was just seeing all the costumed people wandering around the streets. I wasn’t brave enough to actually…
So many projects on my once-my-thesis-is-finished list, I really didn’t know where to start. But I felt like playing with colour, so I pulled out my not-quite-finished Birds in Flight quilt (Wow, it’s nearly two years since I finished the top, and I still haven’t quilted it! Probably because I got over-ambitious about what I…
I met Lytteltonwitch in town after work again tonight so we could sample more of the delights of the food trucks in the Square. Not that there were all that many delights to be had, actually – the season is almost over (next Friday is the last until next summer), so there were only a…
I almost forgot (too busy packing for Ireland – two more sleeps!) but here’s a few photos from the red zone: Poor Cathedral isn’t looking too good these days And it’s even worse in close-up. Large parts of it look just one more good shake away from collapse. But the good news is that Coffee…
DD has been down again, or at least, the ability for some of us to log in properly has been, so these two entries are ones I wrote over the last couple of days but haven’t been able to post until now (so the “yesterday”s are several days ago now – I’ve added in the…
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thanks for the link to a thoughtful post and appeal for compassionate donations. I am preparing donation envelopes for a Nepal appeal at our church beginning this Sunday. They need every rupee they can get.