Thinking about Nepal
Just finished writing a blog post for our CEISMIC blog about the Nepal earthquake, so rather than re-cover the same ground here, I’ll just post a link.
ot that I’d ever complain, but we get a ridiculous amount of annual leave. Five weeks a year, plus an extra four days at Christmas (on top of the statutory holidays), and another day at Easter. So effectively six weeks of holiday a year. Which is seriously cool, but also sometimes difficult to actually use…
t’s been a very long time since we had regular Bookcrossing meetups in Christchurch, what with one thing or another, but with Lytteltonwitch being back in town, we decided to give them another go. So she emailed a few new members, plus some of the old-timers, and arranged a meetup for this morning. And we…
ll of a sudden the season has changed from autumn-that’s-really-late-summer to autumn-that’s-really-early-winter. So cold today! We didn’t at least get the promised hailstorm, but there was an icy wind all day, and some miserable drizzle just as I was walking to work this morning. Hard to believe just over a week ago I was walking…
When even your mother is telling you it’s about time you updated your blog, it’s probably about time you updated your blog… Not that I’ve got anything in particular to update it with. It’s that boring part of winter where nothing in particular happens, and the days are grey and dreary, and spring seems an…
irst Toastmasters meeting of the year tonight, and as always it was a lot of fun. I was the “Table Topics Master”, in charge of the impromptu speaking section of the meeting. I did have a set of prompts prepared to use to assign speaking topics, but as it turned out we had a huge…
s promised, the plumber came back this morning and replaced the newly-leaking pipe. He showed me the pipe he removed, and I’m surprised it hadn’t leaked a lot sooner – it looked like there was only a thin coating of rust holding it together. He said when he cut one end of the pipe to…
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thanks for the link to a thoughtful post and appeal for compassionate donations. I am preparing donation envelopes for a Nepal appeal at our church beginning this Sunday. They need every rupee they can get.