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Making progress
(Yeah, I know, I don’t update my diary for a week, and then make three entries in one day. Such is life.) I’ve almost finished the cross-stitch part of my secret project! Just a few more stitches to go to fill in that wee gap down in the bottom left there, and then it’s just…
Release walk
After a couple of miserable days of rain (one of which I spent sitting in my office with damp feet because the @#$% of a bus-driver stopped the bus in such a position that I could only get on by wading through a huge puddle), the sun finally came out today, so I decided to…
Spring Cleaning… um, I mean Autumn Cleaning
As I may or may not have mentioned, MrPloppy‘s parents are arriving next week from the UK for a month’s visit (they won’t actually be staying with us for the whole month, because they’re going to do a bit of touring around the country, but they’ll be using our place as a base). It’s the…
Not much to report
…other than that I’ve been reasonably successful with keeping up a steady stream of releases for the rest of the week, mostly around the university, and mostly having fun with themed releases: Tuesday Ondine by Jean Giraudoux in the French Department Talk Language by Allan Pease and Alan Garner in the Linguistics Department Wednesday The…
We're back!
Got back from Auckland last night. I’m seriously shattered (despite the fact that MrPloppy and I piked out of the West Coast leg of the trip, staying at home for a few days instead), and I’ve got to go back to work tomorrow 🙁 I haven’t even managed to make release notes on all my…
Registration
The taxi dropped us off a few doors away from the pub, and Hawkette and I struggled to carry our own heavy bags, plus Lytteltonwitch’s bag of books (Lytteltonwitch was under strict instructions from her doctor not to carry any heavy bags this weekend, so I’d promised to play pack horse for her), plus the…