I’m not particularly good at the whole sleeping thing at the best of times (my mind is just too active, and is always reluctant to shut down at the end of the day – I envy people who can just switch off), and I was stupid enough to let my sleep patterns get seriously messed…
Well I’ve finally caught up with my diary entries for my trip to Brisbane in June – I should have done them ages ago (like in June!), but there were so many pictures to upload and books to link to that I kept putting the job off. But I decided that today would be my…
Total: 168 books January (17) Going Postal by Terry Pratchett The Orchard Thieves by Elizabeth Jolley Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun “Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P Feynman More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon The Cartoon Connection: The Art…
At the beginning of this year, I started a project of keeping a list of all the books I read during the year. This was partly inspired by various bookcrossers who were discussing their reading aims for the year – I have no interest whatsoever in trying to meet some sort of target for my…
There are a few pleasant side effects to MrPloppy being out of work. One I particularly enjoy is the fact that he does all the housework, so that I come home from work to a clean house and dinner prepared – I can suddenly see why men have always been so keen on women being…
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone’s having a day of pleasant overindulgence and laziness – we certainly are here in the FutureCat household. We had a little bookcrossing party here on Friday night – lytteltonwitch, awhina, meerkitten, non-fiction, and gwilk and his wife came round for dinner and silly games (supplied by gwilk – it’s…
One of the Readers’ Digest dominoes we released in Dunedin has been caught, and is now in Prague! So much for my theory that nobody ever picks up Readers’ Digests… Actually, getting that catch reminds me that I never did make release notes for the domino books – I think when we got back from…
Well, we’re back from our little releasing expedition, and although things didn’t entirely go according to plan, it did turn out pretty well in the end. The original plan was that Mothercat (no relation :-)) and I were going to create a book fence at St Andrews College, because they have a very long lovely…
Ah, the tale of the naming of FutureCat is a long and tangled one. Sit down and I’ll tell you the story of how I got my name… Actually, it’s reasonably simple: ever since I first started using the internet, I’ve used a variety of usernames with “cat” in them. On one forum that I…
(Actually, at my first primary school we used to call it “tig” rather than “tag” – hmm, the great NZE vowel shift in action? (although that would be more likely to produce “teg”)) Anyway, the game as updated for the 21st century, and with its vowel duely restored, is this: Name 5 of life’s simple…