Look what just arrived

Life continues to be strange. The horrifying pictures from Japan make our earthquake seem so minor, which in a way is reassuring – it could have been so much worse – but also kind of scary – it could have been so much worse! Just as after September, now that the initial drama has died…

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…

A quick entry, mostly just to upload a picture of the completed third tree of my topiary picture. Only one more to go now! (Unfortunately, it’s the hardest one, with loads of fiddly fractionals. I’ve been kind of dreading getting to this point…) Most of my free time over the last week or so has…

As predicted, the temptation of my new craft project got the better of me last night, and I decided to have a go at laying out the pieces on the grid. I thought it would probably take me several goes before I got it looking ok, but once I got the hang of seeing the…

I really will get around to finishing the story of my Brisbane trip one day soon, I just haven’t had time since I got back. For some reason, I’d thought that term started two weeks after I got back, which was crucial, because I knew the first week back at work would be flat out…

Ok, here goes again. Hopefully this time I’ll manage to hit the right keys and not send this entry off into the ether somewhere. MrPloppy and I went down to Timaru with lytteltonwitch on Saturday for a meetup with the Timaru bookcrossers (well, Timaru bookcrosser – The-Organist is the only active bookcrosser in Timaru at…