The mystery is solved!
The phantom marmite deliverer was Rarsberry. Thanks!
ecember weather is notoriously changeable in Christchurch, but it’s been outdoing itself this year – the temperature has been going from high 20s to just above freezing and back again in the space of a few days, and yesterday we had two huge storms, with thunder and hail and all sorts of drama. The first…
Yesterday was not the best birthday ever. For a start, deadlines and panics meant I had to go to work, and it was a frustrating day with all sorts of technical problems putting us even further behind (though on the plus side, one of the analysts did go out and get pastries for afternoon tea…
I finally made it to the fabric shop this morning, so I started work on my new project. It’s only a little one, but reasonably complicated (made even more complicated by the fact that I’m working from my own pattern – it’s based loosely on a quilt I saw online, but simplified a bit (yes,…
alloween isn’t really a thing here. It keeps trying to be a thing (largely led by the retail industry, I suspect), but it never quite makes it. For a start, it’s the wrong time of year – the days are getting longer, and warmer, so there’s nothing at all spooky about the evenings (especially as…
It’s 4 am here, and I’m just about to leave for the airport, bound for Dublin. First stop Sydney, for lunch with the local oookcrossers, then (after the super-long-haul to London) a couple of days with the out-laws in Wales, then I hitch a ride on the witch’s broomstick and we’re off around Ireland for…
‘m feeling pretty proud of myself – I was playing around with some Javascript stuff at work today, and I actually managed to build a wee tool that will be useful for the team! Instead of generating kittens or looking up words in the library, it actually does a useful task that will save us…