This time next week…

I don’t do physical Christmas cards, so please accept this as a virtual Christmas card to all my Dear Diary, Bookcrossing, and Livejournal friends. Hope you all have a great Christmas (or whatever you choose to celebrate tomorrow), and a fabulous New Year. And another sort of Christmas tree: I wandered over to Jellie Park…

Bet the title made you look! No, I haven’t been infesting fast food restaurants with larvae, but I did release the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle in the High Street KFC this afternoon – not my best themed release idea, but it just seemed to fit at the time. I was going…

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…

In theory, I was back at work on Monday. In reality, I was in long enough to clear the mail and my backlog of phone and email messages from over the break, then went back home to bed. Nephew #1 had been coughing a bit when they were here the other day, and guess who…

Kimi! In other news, congratulations to the USians. I hope your new president turns out to be everything you hope for (at least he’s got to be better than the last guy!). At least there’s been one bit of good election news this week. I suspect I won’t be feeling so pleased on Saturday night…

No, not our Tuesday night meetup, that went without a hitch as always – in attendance were me, Alithia, lytteltonwitch, non-fiction, natecull, Cathietay, daveytay, and awhina, I released several books (The Case of the Cottingley Fairies by Joe Cooper, Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella, Cats are Better Than Men by Beverly Guhl, Harry…