The witch and I are in Golden Bay for the weekend, having very many adventures and with limited wifi, so you’ll have to wait until I get home to hear them, and to see all the photos.
ell, so much for all the things I kept telling myself I’d do as soon as I was finished with studying for the year. All that time when I had no time for anything but work and study, I was so looking forward to having the time to read real books, and do massive craft…
In a dusty corner of our porch are three large stones, one for each cat buried in our backyard. Our section sits right on top of one of the gravel banks that criss-cross the Canterbury plains, left over from the Waimakariri’s meanderings, and the reason our suburb got off so lightly in the earthquakes. It’s…
We’re finally getting round to having the 1950s wiring in our house replaced (I’m so looking forward to having more than one power outlet per room – finally an end to the maze of extension cables and multiboards we live our life off!), so had the electrician round on Saturday to do a walkthrough of…
he “Pallet Pavillion” on the site of the old Park Royal was opened today. It’s another Gap Filler project, a venue for music or community events, or pretty much anything really. It’s an amazing space, made almost entirely out of old packing pallets, complete with tables and chairs (made out of vege bins) and a…
Yet again, a long gap between blog posts, mostly because life has been even busier than usual for the past couple of months. Work has been full of big pushes to meet deadlines, and outside of work has been full of social stuff and the usual degree of over-committing myself. And I spent the weekend…
