alloween isn’t really a thing here. It keeps trying to be a thing (largely led by the retail industry, I suspect), but it never quite makes it. For a start, it’s the wrong time of year – the days are getting longer, and warmer, so there’s nothing at all spooky about the evenings (especially as…
ery tiring day today. It got off to a bad start when I was woken up at 3.30 am – I’m not sure what by, but I suspect boy racers. And of course, having been woken up at that horrible hour, it took me forever to get back to sleep again, so I felt like…
fter my triumphant post of yesterday, I very nearly forgot to write a blog post today! I blame the fact that I have actually written a blog post today, it just wasn’t for this blog. My Toastmasters club has a website where a recap of each week’s meeting gets posted. Up until recently, there’s been…
s of yesterday, I’ve managed to write a blog post on 101 consecutive days (which of course makes today number 102, but I liked 101 better for the title…). Not bad going, really (even if sometimes the content has been a little thin). There’s been a couple of late nights in there when I suddenly…
I don’t think I’ve shown you the latest additions to my wall(s) of art. This guy Mum found for me on Trademe: (Despite appearances, it really is hanging straight – it’s just that I had to stand at a bit of an odd angle to get the photo without too many reflections in the glass…
Nobody seemed particularly worried that we appeared to be in the middle of a scene from The Prisoner. This may have had some influence on our decision to start dinner with cake 🙂 After the belly dancers, an aerobics session (complete with Jane Fonda workout tape), and the crowd starts to join in: Not long…
aught the bus over to Lytteltonwitch’s place tonight (conveniently, the bus that stops across the street from my house goes past the end of her street), and we walked into town from there to see the FESTA (Festival of Transitional Architecture) light displays. It was a very cold night, but there were loads of people…
As promised, a few photos from yesterday:
uite apart from the whole winning an award thing, yesterday was really interesting. For a start, I got to go and visit (and even better, take some photographs of) the Canterbury Cultural Collections Recovery Centre. The CCCRC is an amazing place – it’s a giant climate-controlled hangar that stores all the material from the various…
ast night my Toastmasters group had a quiz night. My team maintained a respectable second place up until the second last round. When the quiz leader announced that the theme of the round was flags, there was a loud exclamation of glee from the teenage member of our team, the child of one of the…