I’m really not doing well at keeping my diary up to date, am I? I just don’t seem to have had the time or energy lately… or possibly it’s just that I keep getting distracted by other things. Anyway, been a busy week or so. The end of the year is fast approaching, which signals…
Did I say this was the week for bookrings? Another one arrived today: Choke by Chuck Palahniuk (this is completely unrelated to the Invisible Monsters bookring that arrived last week – it’s pure coincidence that two Palahniuk books turned up so close together). MrPloppy had to go into town today for an appointment with his…
Well, that was a busy few weeks! I am so incredibly behind with writing my diary (let alone reading anyone else’s) I can’t beleive it – where on earth do I start? I think I’ll start with the easy stuff this week and work backwards to the weekends in Mt Cook and Wellington, which involved…
I haven’t done a lot of work on my secret cross-stitch project lately, but it is slowly progressing. Kimi’s guess last time I posted a progress report was “A deformed snowman battling with a white rhinoceros?” Close, but not quite right 🙂
I had to be in Wellington for work on Monday and Tuesday, so I decided to take advantage of the free flights and go up a couple of days early so I could have a weekend’s holiday. When I mentioned this plan to Sherlockfan, asking her if she’d be interested in meeting up sometime over…
So that explains why, true to our usual long detour form, we drove from Mt Cook to Christchurch via Central Otago 🙂 The next morning, after a breakfast of farm-cured bacon (I like visiting Dad, he’s got lots of farmer friends who give him good meat!), and searching the garage for a large piece of…
After a restless night in an uncomfortable bed in a stuffy hot room filled with creaking bunks and too many people (including a loud snorer in the bunk above mine), I got up at first light and encountered an equally sleepless lytteltonwitch in the bathroom. We decided to try and get some internet time while…
On Thursday night the weather forecast wasn’t looking good for Friday, with heavy rain predicted in the mountains, but the rest of the weekend looked ok, so we were up bright and early on Friday morning ready for our adventure. Lytteltonwitch arrived just after 8 (wearing an identical black bookcrossing t-shirt to me! I couldn’t…
(Ok, so it took a while to get back to it, but here’s the rest of the story of our Mt Cook adventure…) As we left the main highway and headed up the road to Mt Cook the mountains got higher (well, steeper – we couldn’t see the tops of them in the clouds, so…
I was registering books last night in preparation for our Mt Cook expedition, and hit a major Bookcrossing milestone: I’ve now registered TWO THOUSAND books! If I’d realised sooner that I was approaching such a significant number, I would have gone and bought a really special book to be my 2000th book (my 1000th was…