Tonight is the first of two Christmas parties I’m hosting this year, this one for my team at work. It’s pot luck, so not a lot of prep needed (except I am my mother’s child, so of course I’ve spent the day cleaning parts of the house that visitors will never see anyway…) Food-wise, my…
Ok, so it’s been another really hot day. So that explains why Parsnips has chosen to sleep in the open window, in the little bit of breeze that’s blowing in now that the sun is going down. What it doesn’t explain is why she feels the need to sleep with her head jammed against the…
I spent a lovely day today with Pieta at a Christmas craft workshop run by Rekindle. Rekindle were set up after the earthquakes to try and make use of some of the huge amount of waste from demolished buildings. They’ve expanded now to find ways of making use of all sorts of what they call…
Remember those Christmassy mini-quilts I was making? That I was going to give to pretty much everyone I know? Yeah, they’re still sitting in a pile next to my sewing machine, half-quilted. And there is no way I’m going to get them finished by Christmas. As usual, I totally under-estimated how long each would take,…
Ok, now it’s officially summer. Not because it was Brother’s birthday (and therefore the first day of summer) on Friday. Not because it’s been stinking hot the last two days. But because I went to the supermarket this morning, and guess what they had? Raspberries!!! Yay!!!! They were stupidly expensive, but who cares, the first…
The conference went really well – our talk seemed to be well-received (my boss was in the audience, along with at least three other people I know as experts in digital archiving, and all were nodding at the right places, so I don’t think I said anything too stupid 🙂 ), and (once the stress…
Yep, I’m back in Wellington again, for another conference. A bit different than the last one though – this time it’s the National Digital Forum, a conference/gathering for people on the technical side of the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) sector. Somehow I don’t think we’ll be decorating our name tags with glitter and…
A week or so ago, I had a toothache. On a Friday afternoon, of course, because things like toothaches never happen on a day when it’s easy to get a dentist’s appointment. But I somehow managed to at least get in to see my normal dentist’s assistant. Who, after a bit of poking and prodding,…
What, a blog post about a convention that was only two weeks ago? What is this madness?? So, yes, the Aus/NZ Bookcrossing convention (or unconvention, technically) was the weekend before last, on Stewart Island. Stewart Island is not the most obvious place for a convention (for the foreigners, it’s that little island at the very…
The mystery quilt has been handed over to its recipient, so now I can show it off here: Given the subject matter, no prizes for guessing who it went to – Lytteltonwitch of course. When I saw the fabric (everything inside the inner purple border is a single panel of fabric) I knew I had…