arvestbird, the miniest mini-Harvestbird and I had planned to go to Dorothy’s this afternoon for tea and scones and cucumber sandwiches, but alas when we got to Cranmer Square there was no sign of the little green caravan. So we went to the Coffee House instead, in anticipation of cake. Unfortunately, in their reinvention they’ve…
onsidering this is supposed to be a blog about bookcrossing, I don’t actually mention bookcrossing very often. Possibly something to do with the fact that I don’t do bookcrossing very often these days (in fact, I even discovered today that I’ve been without wings for quite some time, which never used to happen!) I’m not…
ight, I promised you a description of Tuesday’s pōwhiri. It was due to start at 9.30, but we were instructed to be there at least 15 minutes early, because once the pōwhiri gets started, it’s incredibly rude to interrupt it, so basically, if you’re late, you miss out (and as missing the pōwhiri would have…
ēnā koutou katoa, Ko Kopuwai te maunga, Ko Mata-au te awa, Ko Ngāti Pākehā te iwi, Ko MacMillan te hapū, Nō Ōtākou au, Kei Ōtautahi ahau e noho ana, He CEISMIC Production Coordinator taku mahi, Ko FutureCat taku ingoa, Nā reira, tēnā koutou katoa. Greetings to you all, Kopuwai (the Old Man Range in Central…
ur team spent the day out at Kaiapoi, at the Tuahiwi Marae, learning about the history of the Ngāi Tūāhuriri hapū and a bit of tikanga Māori. As it was being held on a marae, we started off with a pōwhiri, then after morning tea we broke into groups to learn how to put together…
o the cake surprise didn’t exactly didn’t go to plan. For a start, we forgot that Lucy-Jane was working off-campus with one of our content providers this morning. So there we were busy plotting how to get her out of the office for a few minutes at the end of our Monday morning meeting so…
idn’t get round to grouting the mosaic today after all – when I read the instructions properly and saw the bit about having to clean the tiles 12 hours after you grout them, I decided to leave it until next weekend when I could actually manage that without having to get up early tomorrow morning…
or a change, this weekend arrived with nothing written into my diary. It actually left me feeling slightly at a loss this morning – I seem to have had something planned every weekend for months, so not having to work around being at some particular place at some particular time felt weird. But I quickly…
EISMIC has been shortlisted for the NZ Open Source Awards, so we’ve been invited to the awards dinner in Wellington. None of the bosses are available to go, so today they asked if I’d like to go in their place, and take one of the team with me. So I get to go to a fancy…
I’m feeling particularly uninspired for things to write about tonight, so it must be time for a gratuitous photo of Parsnips: She’s quite scary in extreme close-up! (But isn’t the texture in her eyes cool?)