Alkaline-kiwi was in Christchurch this weekend, so we had a Bookcrossing meetup this morning. It was great to catch up with her – plus, of course, the injection of new books into the meetup group is always appreciated 🙂 As so often happens, I came home with as many books as I’d gone with, so…
You might have noticed that things look a little bit different around here. I’m still not completely happy with it – the background is just a random copyright-free one I downloaded, and the header image could still do with a bit of work, but for something thrown together over a couple of lunch hours, I…
Just an ordinary day at work, until I checked my emails, and saw one from the Postgraduate Office which made me squeak with joy: “Congratulations! The examination of your Master’s thesis has now been completed and you have been awarded a grade of <<A+ grade>> for your thesis.” Yep, I passed! And passed spectacularly well!…
Typical, you go for weeks without a blog post, and then two come along at once! This one is because I spent the afternoon out at Tai Tapu with Lytteltonwitch, at a sculpture exhibition, and took very many photos, so I thought I’d better get them edited and posted before they get added to the…
So much for my good intentions of regularly posting to my blog – that seems to have fallen by the wayside a bit! Partly because I’ve been busy (last week I went to Toastmasters on Tuesday night, my craft group on Thursday night, and a union Rainbow Te Kahukura function on Friday night. And this…
Today was the sixth anniversary of the 22 February earthquake. The big event for the day was the unveiling of the new memorial wall, much discussed and debated over the last few years. We needed a blog post for CEISMIC, so I offered to go to the ceremony and write up my impressions. I won’t…
The good news is, it started raining yesterday (I’ve never heard so many people saying “Yay, it’s raining!” instead of “Ugh, it’s raining”). The bad news is, it’s the wrong sort of rain. It’s just been a light drizzle – not enough to put the fires out, but enough to hamper visibility so that the…
In just the few hours since I posted, the fires have got worse. They’re evacuating some of the hill suburbs, and the smoke is coming from a huge swath across the hills now – I was just at a function on the 6th floor of another campus building, which has an unimpeded view across the…
A couple of days ago, two scrub fires broke out in the Port Hills. Since then, despite the best efforts of fire fighters (and the death of a helicopter pilot who had been one of many dumping water from monsoon buckets) the fires have continued to spread, and the cloud of smoke over the hills…
This has been turning out to be quite a busy week. On Thursday evening I went to a craft meetup, one of the many things on my “when the thesis is finished” list. It’s quite a cool group, pretty diverse in ages, if not genders, and a reasonable range of crafts, although of course heavily…