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For once I won’t complain that the North Island is getting all the attention in the news. They’re having storms, heavy rain, landslides and flooding, and we’re having… misty drizzle. Suddenly the end of term (and of the academic year) is approaching fast. Apart from making me panic about how much vocab I’ve got to…
Catching up and catches
I’ve been back from Wellington for three days, and so far I’ve failed miserably with my attempts to catch up with sleep, reading friends’ diaries, and writing my own. Maybe at the weekend… I have managed (just!) to finish making release notes on all the books I released in Wellington though. A long slow process…
Learner Report
I had my second lesson with my new ESOL learner tonight, and it’s going really well. She’s an Afghan refugee, who only arrived in New Zealand in March, and who speaks very little English, and is pre-literate, never having been to school. So we’re starting pretty much right at the beginning, with the basic language…
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…
I think it's time to say goodbye
Ming’s health has been getting steadily worse. About a year ago he had a seizure. Since then, he’s had four or five more that we’ve seen. They haven’t seemed to be distressing him, though, so we decided to spare him the stress of a visit to the vet, and just monitor the situation. The next…
Lacey things
Here’s what I spent a large chunk of yesterday designing: It’s a bobbin roll, for keeping bobbins safe when they’re not being used. Nicely padded with some of the scrap corduroy Lytteltonwitch gave me a while back. It can hold 2 bobbins per pocket, so I should be able to fit about 30 pairs in…