I’m looking after a colleague’s animals for a few days while she’s away – a cat, and (unusually for a suburban household) two chickens. I’ve discovered there are advantages to looking after chickens – while the cat just gave me tonnes of affection when I turned up this morning, the chickens gave me a gift:…
his year is seriously racing past. It’s the end of the academic year tomorrow, and already murmurs about Christmas parties are arising from various quarters – where did the year go??? I’m sure it was only a couple of weeks ago that I finished studying myself, but a whole semester has gone past since then!…
It was the boys’ turn to claim their Christmas adventure today, so Dad offered to drive us up to Queenstown. Queenstown is *the* place to be for New Year’s, so the town was totally packed (yeah, probably should have thought of that before we picked today to go up there…), and we had to queue…
I think Mum is having as much fun with my new patchwork/quilting obsession as I am – she keeps sending me little packages of fabric to feed my ever-growing stash. Yesterday a parcel arrived from her via Trademe, with this fantastic selection: None of the pieces are huge, but they don’t need to be for…
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…
You know how you get behind on something, and the further you get behind the bigger it gets, so it seems too impossibly huge to tackle, so you put it off even longer, and it just keeps getting bigger… yeah, that pretty much explains the massive gap in blog posts. I can’t even blame putting…
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