My craftwork made the papers!

Yes, the oblique hint in last night’s entry *did* indicate that awhina and the Invercargillite are engaged. I was sent home from the meetup with instructions that I wasn’t to tell lytteltonwitch directly, but instead I had to list the books awhina had brought in my diary, and see if lytteltonwitch guessed when she read…

…tend to gang agley due to the lure of a lazy weekend, or they do in my life, anyway. I had all these good intentions of spending the weekend working on my linguistics essay, preparing Wednesday’s ESOL lesson so I don’t have to do it at the last minute, testing out my new secret super-powers…

I’ve decided to turn Yule Be Mine into a bookring. I’ve put a notice on the Bookcrossing forums, and I’ll collect up the names of anyone who wants to read the book, arrange them in some sort of vaguely sensible mailing order, then pass the book to the first person on the list. Once they’ve…

I finally got all my release notes done! Here’s the list: 1 AprilAuckland:The Flint Knife by EF Benson San Francisco:Female Friends by Fay Weldon (caught!)The Story of Benjamin Bee by Pat Wynnejones 2 AprilSan Francisco:Another Amy by Marilyn KayeWhose Side Are You On? by Alan GibbonsMidshipman Quinn by Showell Styles (caught!)The Zucchini Warriors by Gordon…

I haven’t posted pictures for a long time of the cross-stitch I’ve been doing for awhina‘s wedding, but I’ve been quietly working away at it: It’s looking pretty good, but my two big worries now are that I’m rapidly running out of time (the wedding’s on 7 April, and I’ve got to leave enough time…

At 11.15 last night, to be exact. It took a bit longer than I expected, having planned to finish it last weekend, but Sunday’s visitors, then a headache brought on by a combination of a strong nor’wester and lack of sleep (%$&# daylight savings!) knocked out Monday evening, so it was a rush job the…