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Dad and Stepmother came back from Australia on Saturday. They were staying the night at Stepsister’s house this time instead of with us, but they dropped in at our place to pick up their car (which they’d left at our place to avoid paying for long-term parking at the airport – what with Brother’s car…

Breakfast on Monday was a much more relaxed occasion – the sun had finally come out, so we sat outside at the cafe, and enjoyed one last chance to talk to our new friends, and to share a few last books. [album 128913 nzbc30.JPG thumblink] [album 128913 nzbc31.JPG thumblink] We had a few thank-you speeches,…

(And just because I know you’re all thinking it, I’m not going to append “oh my” to the title! :-P) Tonight’s the big coming out, when the film crew arrive to expose my secret identity. Ok, so the big coming out won’t actually be until whenever the documentary gets shown, which probably won’t be for…

Or should that be, I have learners? I met the instructor outside the learner’s house, as arranged, and we went in together. We met D, the learner, a Romanian woman of about my age, and then she introduced us to her husband, G and her cousin (or possibly he was her husband’s cousin? I wasn’t…

Well, sort of revealed. Revealed in a friends only sort of way 🙂 What I’ve been working on for the convention is lots of little pocket-sized ballycumbers: They’re pretty simple, just made out of snow-foam and pipecleaners, but I think they look quite good, and will make a great goody-bag gift. Unfortunately, I ran out…

Yesterday’s mail: I got a corporate Christmas card, MrPloppy got a bank statement, and George got a parcel from Lytteltonwitch. He didn’t seem to appreciate getting mail much though – after a quick sniff to make sure it wasn’t food or a lap, he got bored and wandered off, so we opened it for him:…