It’s been miserable weather here (across the whole country actually – there’s been floods all over the place), and I’ve got a cold, and I’m totally over winter. But today the sun came out, and I spotted a tiny patch of violets (I think? Are they still violets if they’re white and not actually violet?) growing under the tree on the front lawn. Spring is still a very long way off, but it’s nice to have the reassurance it will arrive eventually.
First page of my Cool Cats birthday colouring book: As soon as I saw that face, I just had to colour him to look like Raji! (I don’t know if I got his markings exactly right, Mum, but don’t you agree that’s totally a Raji expression he’s got on his face???)
s you can probably tell from the sudden drop-off in blog posts, life is very much back into the normal pattern of work, work, and more work, and feeling like there’s not enough hours in the day to get everything done I want to (and term hasn’t even started yet, so there’s still study to…
Today was the sixth anniversary of the 22 February earthquake. The big event for the day was the unveiling of the new memorial wall, much discussed and debated over the last few years. We needed a blog post for CEISMIC, so I offered to go to the ceremony and write up my impressions. I won’t…
It seems the earth wants to remind us that just because it’s a new year, that doesn’t mean the end of the aftershocks. We were rudely awakened twice during the night by big ones, a 5.1 at about half past one, and then a 5.5 at quarter to six. Followed, of course, by a string…
DD was down most of yesterday, so I had to post yesterday’s entry on Livejournal instead. But look, proof I really didn’t break my daily posting streak: Anyway, here’s a copy and paste of what I would have written yesterday if the site had let me in: A few interesting recent catches: My Favourite Wife…
ot my flights all booked for going up to Wellington next month. After having it pointed out to me that the Friday of that week is a holiday (for Christchurch, anyway – it’s Show Day), I decided I would stay up there for a few days after all, because I’ll only have to take leave…
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Yes, they are violets even if they aren’t violet. And we need all the signs of change of season we can get when we are weary of the one we are in eh??? 🙂
Most definitely!