ot my flights all booked for going up to Wellington next month. After having it pointed out to me that the Friday of that week is a holiday (for Christchurch, anyway – it’s Show Day), I decided I would stay up there for a few days after all, because I’ll only have to take leave…
um went home yesterday. It’s weird to have an empty house again (but also nice – not that I didn’t enjoy her company, of course, and she’s the least imposing house guest ever, but I do like having the place to myself). Parsnips is not impressed at the sudden lack of knitting needles to play…
A dried thyme leaf A sultana Salt Cat fur A broccoli floret Bread crumb Hundreds and thousands I think between here, livejournal and flickr, the only ones that nobody managed to figure out where the bread and the thyme. Well done 🙂
Today we grouted the little test pieces of mosaic Mum and I were playing with: They haven’t quite finished drying yet, so they haven’t been polished. Not the most artistic, but we had fun 🙂
uess who I had lunch with today? Yep, Lytteltonwitch. She’s finally returned from her wanderings and sufficiently over her jetlag, and I had the day off, so we arranged to meet in town for lunch, followed by a walk around town so she could get lost due to the lack of familiar landmarks. After an…
his year is seriously racing past. It’s the end of the academic year tomorrow, and already murmurs about Christmas parties are arising from various quarters – where did the year go??? I’m sure it was only a couple of weeks ago that I finished studying myself, but a whole semester has gone past since then!…
esterday I took the day off so Mum and I could do some serious shopping. Except neither of us is very good at serious shopping, so it quickly devolved into a bit of vague wandering around the shops deciding we didn’t actually want to buy anything anyway, interspersed with many many breaks for tea and…
Mum bought a Christmas present for the kids today – a digital microscope. Seriously cool – we’ve just spent about an hour playing with it “testing it out to make sure it works ok” before she puts it away for Christmas, and it’s been so much fun. We were pulling out everything we could find…
um arrived last night for a week’s visit (I’ve only been inviting her to come up to Christchurch for about a year…). I’ve got to be at work for most of the week (though I did manage to book a couple of days off), so I think we’ll both survive the visit with sanity intact…
t may look a bit underwhelming next to yesterday’s photos of the amazing Crack’d for Christchurch mosaics, but I’m happy enough with how my little attempt is progressing, for a first effort. I finally got round to doing the grouting this morning, and it’s now drying, ready to be polished tonight. It was, as promised,…