Can you guess what it is yet?

I had my oral exam for Spanish today, and it didn’t go well 🙁 I was really well prepared – I’d done loads of study, and had even worked out what I could say if the examiner asked all the most likely questions – but when I went into his office my mind went completely…

When we got up this morning and looked across the street, we saw another crashed car, sitting in the remains of a tree! I’d been woken up several times in the night by squealing brakes, but squealing brakes aren’t an unusual sound in our street (there’s a few boy racer types who live in the…

Washington DC* After diligently keeping up with my journal for almost two weeks, I’ve failed at the final hurdle, and not managed to write up the last few days. I would do it now, but it’s after midnight and I’m very very tired, and it’s going to be a big day tomorrow. So time to…

Another friends-only series of posts about an embroidery project, because this is another one intended for someone who I know reads my diary. I’ll admit the colour choice of the fabric was partly inspired by the fact that I already had it in my fabric stash (and I was feeling much too impatient to get…

(Yes, as usual I’m way behind with the actual writing about a convention, but in the meantime, here’s a list of books…) Friday night BBQAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThe Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark TwainRelic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln ChildSleepers by Lorenzo CarcaterraSpook by Mary RoachThe Street of a Thousand Blossoms by…

Easter Saturday, and (as mentioned above) the last day of the first half of our big trip. Before leaving Dunedin we had a quick look around the city (and, as I said above, released The Iceberg Hermit at the railway station, where it was very quickly caught) because the shops had of course all been…