Protected: The funeral

Christmas approacheth fast, and I even went to a nativity play on Sunday… well, sort of a nativity play – meerkitten invited me along to watch her Sunday School’s Christmas play, which was actually four plays: three different versions of the nativity story with modern twists, and a story about christmas trees that Meerkitten starred…

I’ve got a preliminary interview with the ESOL Home Tutoring people on Tuesday evening, and then assuming they accept me (which is pretty likely – from what the woman I spoke to said they’re not exactly swamped with volunteers, and as an ex-teacher I’m a pretty good candidate), the training will start the following week!…

In a calmer voice now… 😉 We had a very busy day on Saturday. First up was a breakfast meetup (hmm, I haven’t heard yet what the new official name for meetups is going to be – they were supposed to be voting on it at Charleston) at Trattorie, attended by me, MrPloppy, lytteltonwitch, and…

Well it’s been a busy week or so since I last made a diary entry. FutureCat seems to have actually acquired a bit of a social life! First awhina rang me on Friday morning to ask if I wanted to go to dinner and/or the pictures with her that night, because she was kittenless for…

After Friday, I wanted a nice quiet weekend (especially because the next couple of weekends will probably feature a lot of studying, what with final exams coming up fast), so we borrowed a couple of DVDs and spent most of yesterday watching them. One was Midnight Cowboy, which I’ve seen a couple of times now,…

Those little red circles making up the raspberries took forever to appliqué on!