Protected: On the sick list

Well, I’ve been to my first ever ball game, and it was great fun. I think there was some sort of sport being played on the field, but I was more fascinated by all the other stuff going on, in the crowd, on the screens, and on the field when the players weren’t. There was…

For the first time in my life, I made a 111 call last night. The neighbours across the street had been having a party (no, not the elderly couple with the nice garden, next door to them), and at about 1.30 am, once the music had finally died down a bit and we’d got to…

We had our “second Tuesday of the month” meetup tonight, despite this only being the first Tuesday of November. That’s because last year we were caught out by the second Tuesday of November being Cup Day, when everyone in Christchurch who’s anyone (and most of the people who aren’t anyone) goes to the races and…

Well I’ve finally caught up with my diary entries for my trip to Brisbane in June – I should have done them ages ago (like in June!), but there were so many pictures to upload and books to link to that I kept putting the job off. But I decided that today would be my…

I’ve been back from Wellington for three days, and so far I’ve failed miserably with my attempts to catch up with sleep, reading friends’ diaries, and writing my own. Maybe at the weekend… I have managed (just!) to finish making release notes on all the books I released in Wellington though. A long slow process…

Despite the fact that my cold has come back a bit, so I really should have had an early night last night, I went with the Chick Flicks group to see The Lake House. For the first third of the film it didn’t really capture my imagination, but I ended up quite enjoying it –…