It’s that time of year again, and as meerkitten‘s “honorary aunties”, lytteltonwitch and I were invited along to her Sunday school’s Christmas play. I had about as much fun as an atheist who has very little to do with children can sitting in a church watching a bunch of kids talking about Jesus… but cynicism…
A private entry to show off a bit of embroidery that won’t be able to be made public until February: [album 128913 091205cackles.jpg] Cackleberry is one of the lovely Brisbane bookcrossers I met when I was over there for the ABC convention. Last week his wife, jawin, sent me the following email: Hello FutureCat, I…
I finally got round to getting a piece of ribbon (well, actually I finally got round to asking MrPloppy to getting some for me when he was in town the other day) so I could finish off the Christmas Kittens. I’ve still got to get a brass ring to put on the ribbon to hang…
We put up the Christmas tree last night. We have a plastic tree (I don’t like the idea of chopping down a tree just to decorate our house for a few weeks) which comes apart for storage. Anyway, I was putting the tree together, and when I turned round to take the top section of…
Well it’s been a busy week or so since I last made a diary entry. FutureCat seems to have actually acquired a bit of a social life! First awhina rang me on Friday morning to ask if I wanted to go to dinner and/or the pictures with her that night, because she was kittenless for…
[album 128913 021205wgtnbc.jpg]Discoverylover, edwardstreet, Sherlockfan, and Alectoness
Yeah, I know, I said I never do these quiz things, but this one amused me, especially when I tried it out (just taking the first ten, rather than the applicable ones): FutureCat needs a cold shower.It *is* quite warm today, but I didn’t think it was that bad yet. FutureCat needs a smack daddy.Do…
On Saturday one of the local schools held a Community Fun Day (which MrPloppy reckons sounds like something that would be held in a totalitarian state: “Ve vill haf a community fun day and you vill haf fun! Zere vill be laughink and singink and enjoyment! You must haf fun now!”), and gwilk arranged to…
[album 128913 021205fun1.jpg]Gwilk with the groaning table full of books at the beginning of the afternoon. [album 128913 021205fun2.jpg]The “Free Books” sign shifted to a more sensible position. Having it hanging from the umbrella was wonderfully visible, except that the wind kept catching it, making the umbrella spin round, and occasionally hitting a “customer” in…
[Note: this diary entry is a copy of an article I have submitted to the Bookcrossing.com newsletter.] What do you do with 75 Reader’s Digest Condensed Books? If you’re a Bookcrosser, then the answer is easy: “Release them!” But if you’re lytteltonwitch, you come up with something a lot more creative… Exactly why she was…