(although I did spend the afternoon at a 2 year old’s birthday party, so it was a close-run thing for a bit…) I’ve been getting the odd nudge and query as to my continued existence, so I thought I’d better drop in briefly and reassure everyone that yes, I’m still alive, and I’m not avoiding…
So much for autumn, we seem to have skipped straight to winter. We’ve had three days now of gales, heavy rain, and the occasional flurry of sleet and hail. Half the city is flooded, there’s trees down all over the place, and it’s generally cold and wet and miserable. My garden is like a lake,…
erm started this week, and I’m already swamped with work (it’s worrying when the lecturer says she’s going to give you a nice easy reading for the first week, and it’s 40 pages long (and that’s not counting the two “optional” readings that go with it…). Yeah, I kind of forgot just how hard Honours…
eing an archive for the Canterbury earthquakes means 22 February is a big day for us at work. It fell on a Saturday this year, but that just meant we had one less day to prepare, because we had to have a major collection ready for launch on the 21st instead. And of course, the…
My brother and SIL were in town again this weekend for another wedding, so they popped by yesterday morning to drop off some bits and pieces from Mum (mostly random kitchen items I’d been eyeing up from a pile she was clearing out last time I was down there – most exciting being a decent…
eleasing all those books at the weekend gave me quite a few catches. As well as the one I got on the day, I’ve had three more (three new members, too): 101 Cataclysms by Rachael Hale The Master Cat by David Garnett Time for Paws by Barbara Maguire Not bad going! And looking in my…
oday marks 11 years since I joined Bookcrossing. Not that I’ve done a huge amount of bookcrossing in the last year or three – I got out of the habit with the earthquakes and never really got back to it. Not having any other active bookcrossers in the area doesn’t help much either. I’d blame…
Six jars of cherry and apple chutney. So I’ve got no housework done (except for cleaning the kitchen to remove all the stickiness – the cutlery drawer hasn’t been this tidy in ages!), but I reckon I’ve had a pretty productive weekend 🙂
ad sent me a text a few days ago, saying friends of his were coming up to Christchurch, so he’d given them some apricots to drop off to me. Cool, thought I, there might be enough to bottle some of them – I love bottled apricots, and the tinned ones from the supermarket just aren’t…
s you can probably tell from the sudden drop-off in blog posts, life is very much back into the normal pattern of work, work, and more work, and feeling like there’s not enough hours in the day to get everything done I want to (and term hasn’t even started yet, so there’s still study to…