When we got up this morning and looked across the street, we saw another crashed car, sitting in the remains of a tree! I’d been woken up several times in the night by squealing brakes, but squealing brakes aren’t an unusual sound in our street (there’s a few boy racer types who live in the…
Well, I got my picture in the newspaper, anyway. We had a protest yesterday about the redundancies in the College of Arts, and I somehow ended up in the photo that got in the paper (I was trying my best to hide whenever I saw the photographer, but he was popping up all over the…
Well that was an interesting day. Perhaps I should let the pictures speak for themselves: [album 128913 140206crash1.jpg] [album 128913 140206crash2.jpg] [album 128913 140206crash3.jpg] [album 128913 140206crash4.jpg] [album 128913 140206crash5.jpg] And that’s what happens when a car plows through three gardens, bouncing off the side of our house in the process! I suppose I’d better…
I had a very constructive day yesterday. After finishing as much of my patchwork project as I was able to, I took advantage of the fact that the sewing machine was out to patch a couple of favourite pairs of jeans. One pair had just a small hole, so I was able to patch it…
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…
Progress report on the patchwork, which I spent today working on instead of all the other things I could/should be doing. The point of no return – starting to sew the first seam (actually, the point of no return was really when I ironed the patches onto the backing stuff, but somehow starting sewing seems…
No, it’s not a political rant 🙂 The first overseas guests for the NZ Bookcrossing Convention have just arrived – KimKerry and ds3233, two bookcrossers from Arizona, flew in to Christchurch today. So of course we had to arrange a meetup (if only to make boreal and rarsberry jealous because we got to meet them…
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…
And while I was writing that diary entry, another email about a catch arrived in my in-box! This time it was for Let’s Face the Music and Die by Sandra Scoppettone, a book that I’d given to rarsberry when she was up here visiting ages ago. She released it in Dunedin, where it was caught…
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