That’s how much flying I’ll be doing if I go with the latest itinerary I’ve worked out for the London trip. That’s a lot of flying! (There goes any pretensions I have to being green…) The itinerary has been changing almost on a minute by minute basis over the last couple of days, with emails…
We had a great meetup tonight, and very well attended: me, lytteltonwitch, keenreda and MrKeenreda, Marcie130, awhina, MrAwhina, meerkitten and giraffe02, and angela7715. Everyone was suitably impressed by the bookstrings, and loads of other ideas were tossed around the table: Marcie130 had found some screen-printing screens for a kiwi design, so we discussed ideas for…
The predicted hot weather sort of arrived, except it was under a blanket of low cloud, so it’s been horrible and muggy again all day. I hate muggy weather – it’s so draining. Oh well, it’s starting to look rather stormy out there now, and the wind’s come up, so with any luck we’ll have…
A few cool recent catches, all destined for exciting further travel: Gravity by Tess Gerritsen: a second anonymous finder catch, possibly by the same finder as the first one (it’s a bit hard to tell from the journal entries), but it’s now in Washington. Duncton Wood by William Horwood: released in Wellington in November, and…
Lytteltonwitch mentioned this morning that she was going back to the bead shop to get more string, which was my mission for the day as well, so we arranged to meet in town (after a very quick dash on my part to have my shower and get to the bus stop on time). At the…
That’s 100 bookstrings done (well, apart from sealing the knots and trimming the ends), and I’m almost out of string again. I think I’m starting to run out of inspiration, too – the last couple of strings looked a bit boring. Probably a sign that I should stop there, and channel my creative energy into…
Ok, so everyone knows English is a hard language to learn. But that was brought back to me in a major way last night during a lesson with my ESOL student. I’ve been putting off broaching the past tense, as just getting the basics of communication is still the priority for her, but the story…
As I seem to do all to often lately, I’ve let my diary get so behind that the thought of catching up is totally intimidating, so I’ve been putting it off, which makes it even harder to catch up. So, new year, new start, and permission to myself to let all those missing entries go,…
Total = 123 books January (14) The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir by Bill Hayes The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith Eldest by Christopher Paolini (borrowed from meerkitten) The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (library audio book) A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy The…
I’m going to London for the bookcrossing convention!!!!!!!! I can’t stop smiling. More details later. ^ ^00=+=V