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Going home the long way
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So that explains why, true to our usual long detour form, we drove from Mt Cook to Christchurch via Central Otago 🙂 The next morning, after a breakfast of farm-cured bacon (I like visiting Dad, he’s got lots of farmer friends who give him good meat!), and searching the garage for a large piece of…
And the real news
This bit’s friends only, because it contains a bit too much identifying information. One of the reasons I’ve been too busy to post anything lately is that all my good intentions of not taking on anything extra this year, and of just having a quiet life and looking after myself, kind of collapsed when I…
Shiny computer!
I’m writing this not at the normal boring desktop in the cold study, but on a nice shiny new laptop sitting on a comfy chair in the nice warm lounge (well, it would be nice and warm if we’d got the fire going yet, but theoretically it’s warmer than the study). And the reason for…
Assorted things
Another big aftershock this morning. 5.5 – big enough to shake half the CDs off their shelf, but no damage. George, as usual, slept through it while MrPloppy and I cowered under the doorway. I’ve had a very constructive weekend, for a change. Managed to get a whole load of little jobs done that have…
A brief entry just to say…
The convention started last night, and it’s going wonderfully! Loads of wonderful people, and wonderful books, and wonderful food, and wonderful fun, and we’ve only just started! (I know it’s immodest of me to describe the convention in such glowing terms, but I’m just so happy that it all seems to be working out, and…
Reporting in (and a couple of NoNos)
Well, we’re back from our trip down south, have covered an unfeasible number of kilometres in the last three days, successfully (finally) accomplished our mission of delivering the hug box to Otakuu, and generally had a great (but exhausting) time. I’ve got hundreds of photos (literally – I had to buy a new memory card…