It’s 2015 here in New Zealand, even if most of the rest of the world is still to catch up, and has dawned a lovely sunny day after yesterday’s rain. I reckon that augurs great things for the year – and even if it doesn’t, I fully intend to have a good year anyway 🙂 …
I’m looking after a colleague’s animals for a few days while she’s away – a cat, and (unusually for a suburban household) two chickens. I’ve discovered there are advantages to looking after chickens – while the cat just gave me tonnes of affection when I turned up this morning, the chickens gave me a gift:…
“Square meander” “Nesting boxes” – further proof that I’m not good at the structured, regular stuff. Of course, I could have done something sensible like draw in chalk guidelines first, but where’s the fun in that? “Paisley” And then work ground to a halt because I ran out of cotton. So I’ll have to walk…
pent this afternoon with Lytteltonwitch in the very Christmassy occupation of giraffe hunting. We weren’t the only ones, either – we ran into other people doing the same thing. Who says Christmas Day needs to be spent eating way too much food (ok, so we did that later… tacos* for dinner followed by way too…
ent to the supermarket this morning (yeah, I know, bad move on Christmas Eve, but it wasn’t actually as crowded as I expected – I didn’t even have to queue for a checkout) to grab a few things for tomorrow, and apparently there’s a world-wide raspberry shortage. Or, at least, a Christchurch-wide one. The supermarket…
As promised, a few photos from of the Christmas lights. Didn’t get as many good photos as I would have liked, but it was very crowded, so finding places I could put down my tripod without getting in anyone’s way, or without anyone bumping into my camera, was pretty difficult, plus I’m not familiar enough…
osting after midnight again, but I’ve decided it doesn’t count as skipping a day as long as I haven’t been to bed yet. Yeah, the logic is weak, but I’m allowed to make up the rules as I go along 🙂 The reason I’m posting so late is because Lytteltonwitch and I went out to…
‘ve cleaned up after last night’s party, and I’ve made release notes on the books we left on the Christmas Book Tree, so that means all my “have to do” stuff is finished with for the year. Now all there is left to do for the next three weeks is relax – I’m finally on…
ytteltonwitch and I attempted to revive our old tradition of the Christchurch Bookcrossing Christmas Party tonight – a limited success, seeing as so many people have moved away or given up on Bookcrossing, but Rarsberry (plus a mini-berry) and the Gwilks came, so it wasn’t a complete flop. And we had some good food, and…
nother Christmas function today (almost the last one for the year) – this one for the College of Arts office staff, which they invited our office to, seeing as they share a corridor with us. As well as a pot-luck lunch, the big event was the announcing of the winners of the Christmas door decorations…