And now, after all those lists, an actual post: fter a couple of days of hiding away from the world, I was feeling ready for human contact again, so a couple of invitations yesterday came just at the right moment. First was to join Harvestbird for cake and afternoon tea in civilisation, before she heads…
This could be why I’ve got no life at the moment: I’ve taken the day off work to attempt to get an essay written, and that’s the reading pile I’ve accumulated for it (the books, though they look impressive, are not the biggest bit – most of them I’m only using one chapter from –…
I think our drought has officially broken. After a long dry summer when we’d all forgotten what rain is, two days of pouring rain (with several more to come, by the look of it) have reminded us. It’s a bit of a shock, suddenly being all cold and miserable like this – I’m definitely not…
The aftershocks continue: The red lines on the seismograph are where they’ve cropped the trace so that it doesn’t totally obscure the rest of the graph. Most of them are 3s, which we don’t really feel over this side of town (the epicentres are in the east of the city or just off the coast),…
I participated in TexasWren’s ornament exchange again this year, and last night when I got home my ornament was waiting for me. But not just an ornament, it was a whole box of goodies from Herchelle in Calgary. Parcels with proper stamps on them always seem much more exciting On opening the box, the first…
I just spent mumble mumble mumble dollars on a shiny new toy: Those of you who know how much my little point & click camera has annoyed me over the years may be surprised to see the Sony label on the front of that beast, and indeed, that’s not the camera I went into the…
PURR’FECT !