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Telling stories
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I went to a really interesting seminar yesterday, about the way we use stories in our lives. What the speaker pointed out was that when we (especially women, according to her, but I can see how this applies to men as well, though sometimes in different ways) talk to our friends, a lot of what…
A very old catch, and the odd patch
I got a great catch tonight – a book that’s been “missing in action” for more than two years! In October 2003 KiwiKat and I went on a releasing expedition to Akaroa. We had a lovely day over there, and released tonnes of books, but didn’t get very many catches. Well tonight I got an…
Why FutureCat?
Ah, the tale of the naming of FutureCat is a long and tangled one. Sit down and I’ll tell you the story of how I got my name… Actually, it’s reasonably simple: ever since I first started using the internet, I’ve used a variety of usernames with “cat” in them. On one forum that I…
Meetup drama
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…
Busy as a very busy thing
The perennial problem of writing a diary is that when you’re busy, you’ve got lots to write about and no time to write it, and when you’ve got plenty of time to write, you’ve got nothing significant to say… Anyway, now that the rush is over, I’ll attempt to catch up a bit. Going back…
Hail and well met
We were woken last night at around midnight by a very dramatic thunderstorm, with almost continuous thunder and lightning, and incredibly heavy hail (they said on the news today that there were marble-sized hailstones – I wasn’t going outside to check!) In the morning, there were still patches of unmelted hail on the ground –…