I went to Trattorie for lunch on Saturday, to drop off the books that freesia had left with me: Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse Plays Well With Others by Allan Gurganus Hooray for Hellywood by Esther Friesner Dreaming of a Stranger by Sheila O’Flanagan A Reader’s Digest Condensed Book What She Wants by Cathy Kelly…
Bookcrossing was featured on John Campbell’s programme on TV3 last night – an Auckland bookcrosser (I think it was Innes – they didn’t give her screenname) has been releasing books in memory of Bronwyn Tate, a NZ author who died recently, and they had a segment on her wandering around Auckland releasing books. It should…
I seem recently to have lost my ability to actually keep my diary up to date – I always seem to be writing about things that happened several days ago. So to continue that trend: On Saturday lytteltonwitch and I went out to Kirwee to see Mothercat perform in the Selwyn Short Play Festival. She…
Poor MrPloppy! He flew to London on Wednesday evening… well, that was the idea, anyway – it didn’t quite work out like that. His itinerary was pretty simple: fly to Auckland, spend two hours there, then fly to Los Angeles, another two hour wait, then fly to London, arriving at Heathrow on Thursday morning, where…
In case you were wondering, yes, I did manage to get my blackwork wedding sampler finished in time for MrPloppy to take it over to the UK with him. It was a bit of a last minute rush, but I finished the main part of the pattern on Monday night, and just had time to…
I wasn’t totally happy with the lettering – I didn’t have time to properly graph out my own lettering, so I just copied an alphabet from a book – it didn’t look too bad on paper, but didn’t look great once I’d sewn it. Unfortunately, by the time I realised that, it was too late…
We were woken last night at around midnight by a very dramatic thunderstorm, with almost continuous thunder and lightning, and incredibly heavy hail (they said on the news today that there were marble-sized hailstones – I wasn’t going outside to check!) In the morning, there were still patches of unmelted hail on the ground –…
While I’m uploading photos, a couple I forgot to upload with this diary entry: The hail still on the ground on Sunday morning:[album 128913 hail.JPG thumblink] Proof that it was seriously cold – Ming and Saffy actually snuggled up to each other to keep warm![album 128913 hailcats.JPG thumblink]
The m-bag from nekki2976 finally arrived this week. It was HUGE!!! The poor postman almost ruptured himself lifting it out of the van (as did MrPloppy when he brought it inside!) A few of the boxes inside had come apart in transit, but luckily none of the books were damaged. And what a treasure of…
I forgot to add – had a few good catches over the past week: Crisis on Conshelf Ten by Monica Hughes was caught in Akaroa, Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy was caught at the hospital (I released it in the botanic gardens, so it had travelled, but not very far!), and Through a…