he Gwilks invited me round for lunch with some friends of theirs (who included Gaby, who I remembered from the Chick Flicks group), followed (of course) by board games. We spent a very enjoyable afternoon playing a wide assortment of games, most of which I’d never encountered before. I won once, came absolutely last once,…
s predicted, winter has returned with a vengance. A freezing cold day, followed by icy rain and wind tonight (luckily I managed to make it home just before it started). So Parsnips has got her wish – the fire is roaring, and she is comfortably ensconced in front of it (as I will be too…
have got a cat attempting to force her way on to my lap as I type this. I think it’s in protest over the fact that I haven’t lit the fire tonight, so she hasn’t got anywhere warm to sit. Not that it’s a particularly cold night (which is why I haven’t bothered to light…
ot that I’d ever complain, but we get a ridiculous amount of annual leave. Five weeks a year, plus an extra four days at Christmas (on top of the statutory holidays), and another day at Easter. So effectively six weeks of holiday a year. Which is seriously cool, but also sometimes difficult to actually use…
abbit is a very pleasant meat to eat, but it smells disgusting while it’s cooking, especially when boiled. Same goes for hare. I’m currently cooking meatballs made from some hare mince my brother gave me, and even though I know they’ll taste fantastic once they’re done, I’m trying to avoid spending any time in the…
very few weeks at work someone in the office will declare it time for a cake run, and one of us will run down to the cafe for a selection of cakes and slices. Such a need arose this morning, so I duly undertook the cake run and we had a morning-tea break enhanced by…
pring is still a month or two away, but it was making its eventual presence known today with blue skies and a lovely warm nor’wester (this is the only time of year when anyone in Christchurch would ever describe a nor’wester as “lovely”!!). It was rumoured to have reached 20 degrees mid-afternoon – we certainly…
ig excitement at work today was a visit from the Mayor. She’d been invited by one of our directors to learn more about the archive and what we’re doing, especially as we’ve been working with the City Council on a few projects. Of course, as soon as senior management heard she was going to be…
t’s starting to get a little lighter in the mornings now, and the sun is usually just starting to come up as I leave the house in the mornings. This morning as I was about to leave I noticed the sky was doing all sorts of pretty colours in the east, so I dashed back…
ast week I released a few books in the reception area along the corridor from our office. There’s always a queue of students waiting there to see the student advisors, so I thought some of them might appreciate a book to read while they waited. It worked, too, because the books were snatched up very…