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Somewhere in southern Texas Yesterday was the first day that’s been mostly boring, but it did have its highlights. The main aim of the day was just getting from Lubbock to San Antonio – a very long trip mostly across more wide flat plains with not a lot to see. Just outside Lubbock was a…

Written 9.26 am, Tuesday 1 August 2006, to be uploaded whenever I get a chance… Why is it the moment DD goes down I have an uncontrollable urge to write a diary entry? It’s not even as if I have anything particularly interesting to report (except that evienz caught one of my books from the…

We have a new addition to our household: a gorgeous fluffy black cat called George.[album 128913 george.jpg]Acquiring George was a bit of an impulsive decision – on Wednesday a friend forwarded this email to me that she’d just been sent: Can anyone in Christchurch offer a home to a beautiful, black, long-haired cat named George?…

I know, I know, I’ve been so slack lately about updating my diary. And I can’t even remember all that I haven’t written about lately… I would have written up the trip to Dunedin, which was great fun, but I was waiting for lytteltonwitch to email me the photos she took of our Harry Potter…

Thank you everyone for your comments and hugs. I’m actually feeling a lot better about it all, now that it’s all over. When the vet gave Ming the injection, and I heard him take his last gasping breath and then was still, I felt such a feeling of relief – the stillness was such a…

I think this is the plate in the photo. From memory it came out of a bargain bin of assorted loose crockery at the Warehouse (a very cheap chain kind of similar to Walmart), and doesn’t have anything as sophisticated as a maker’s mark – all it says on the bottom is “Made in China”….