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The New Year starts now
I’ve actually been home for a few days, but they still felt like holiday days, mainly because Brother and the two boys came back to Christchurch with me. The trip to Christchurch was their (and my!) Christmas present, because SIL had bought us all tickets to go to a Weird Al Yankovic concert. The boys…
Mercy killing
Meet Parsnips’ latest victim: A very tiny (the ruler is in inches), and thanks to Parsnips, very dead, baby sparrow . Actually, technically I was the murderer, as I had to break the poor wee thing’s neck. Parsnips brought it in a few minutes ago, and was happily tossing it around the study. It was…
Block of the Whenever #1
A while back, on one of my “the shipping is flat rate, so I might as well add a few more things to my cart” shopping sprees from Missouri Star, I found a layer cake of Kaffe Fassett fabrics on special. Kaffee Fassett is one of those fabric designers that you learn the name of…
Bitten by an Australian
I’ve always suspected being social is a dangerous thing. I proved it on Tuesday night, when, waving to my neighbour as we always do when I happen to arrive home while she’s in her front yard, I thought I’d actually stop and say hello for a change. As I was talking to her, I leant…
Stupid cat
Parsnips is currently sitting in the laundry basket. I’m not sure that’s where she intended to be (I suspect she jumped up thinking she’d land on top of the lid (one of her preferred places to sit and watch the world go by), not realising I’d just taken everything out of the basket to put…