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Don’t worry, I haven’t gone all l33t, that’s just an in-joke reference (from the More Awesome Than You Sims site) to the Pets expansion pack for The Sims 2. Which I got for Christmas. And which has been absorbing a large chunk of my time and attention for the last two days 🙂 Christmas was…

The convention might have been over, but my holiday certainly wasn’t – I still had another four days in Brisbane. After the lunch, servalan, lytteltonwitch and I headed out to visit some more of Brisbane’s markets, release a few more books (yes, we still had some left!) and to explore the Botanic Gardens some more….

A couple of weeks ago, I spotted a release alert from microsquid seeming to indicate she was in Christchurch, so I PMed her and invited her to meet the local bookcrossers. She replied that she’d just left Christchurch, but would be coming back through this week, so we arranged to have a meetup last night….

I think I’ll let the photos speak for themselves (and yes, that’s me at the sewing machine, and no, I wasn’t hiding from the camera, that was actually the only way I could see what I was sewing!): [album 128913 050207secret01.jpg thumblink] [album 128913 050207secret02.jpg thumblink] [album 128913 050207secret03.jpg thumblink] [album 128913 050207secret04.jpg thumblink] [album…

After a lovely evening with the early – arriving book crossers I’m now sitting in kiwiinengland’s hostel room with her and edwardstreet, where we’re all being terribly antisocial in a geeky bookcrosser sort of way sitting here with laptops and tablets registering books and making release notes and eating fudge and drinking wine.  and I’m…

Just heard from Jenny – she and Christian are ok. So glad to hear that. I’ve offered them the use of our house while we’re away if their place is unliveable.