Photos (warning: may contain tutus)

I was born in Dunedin, and spent several chunks of my childhood there, so prior to 13 November 1990, Aramoana (or just “The Spit” as it was almost universally known before the protests against the smelter proposal brought it to national attention) was just a place to go for a day at the beach, to…

Welshamethyst (very closely followed by texaswren, madame urushiol, and KiwiKimi – easy to spot which of my friends list have an interest in antiques!), who spotted the distinctive swirls of an old Singer sewing machine:

Tonight after work I met lytteltonwitch in town, and she gave me a lift over to Beckenham to pick up the second lot of books I’d won on Trade Me. Again, a very mixed bag: The Diary of Anne Frank Duncton Wood by William Horwood Duncton Rising by William Horwood Angel Hunt by mike Ripley…

I just spent half an hour writing a long and interesting entry, and somehow when I was just a few sentences away from finishing it, managed to accidentally hit some key combination equivalent to the Back button which wiped it all! Not fair!!!! Once I have regained my composure I will attempt to recreate my…

Stupid %$#@ wisdom tooth has chosen to make its semi-annual reappearance, so for the next few days I’ll have an unusual amount of sympathy for any teething babies I encounter. It hurts!!! (And to make it worse, the pain has transferred itself to the rest of my face in a lovely generalised neuralgia – what…

[We interrupt this broadcast (before I’ve even written more than the title) to say I just looked out the window, and it’s snowing! It’s been threatening rain all morning, and started to drizzle about 20 minutes ago, but it’s suddenly turned into snow – and quite heavy for Christchurch, too. I don’t know if it’ll…