Yep, it’s the last Sunday of the month again, so time for a breakfast meetup at Trattorie. Quite a good turnout, including two newbies: me, awhina, lytteltonwitch, non-fiction, and mecka-antics. We’ve been trading recipes with mecka-antics via the BCNZ Yahoo list, because he’s just moved to Christchurch and started flatting, so I brought along my…
I continued my plan of releasing books around the campus this week – on Thursday I released Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and A Modern Comedy by John Galsworthy in the English Department, and on Friday I left The Loves and Journeys of Revolving Jones by Leslie Thomas in the Commerce department, and The Archivist…
Great start to my plan of releasing a book or two at the university every day this week – yesterday morning I was running late so didn’t have time to grab any books as I ran out the door. I was sensible last night, though – I made sure I picked out a couple of…
The new university year starts today, so it’s a perfect time to release books around the campus, while the students are still excited and enthusiastic and receptive to new ideas. I’m planning on trying to release at least one book a day on campus this week, in the hopes of catching a few new members…
Went to Trattorie for lunch with Lytteltonwitch yesterday. Actually, technically it was a meetup for the Cross-stitch meetup group I’m trying to resurrect (I wanted to join a new meetup group,in the hope of expanding my circle of friends outside of Bookcrossing a bit (not that there’s anything wrong with Bookcrossers, I just don’t want…
One of the fun things about planning a convention for such a generous community as Bookcrossers is people offer to send you all sorts of cool things to go in the goody bags. I’ve had emails from all over the world, offering to send everything from books to lollies, plus quite a few mysterious “I’ve…
Had an email today to say that someone had just caught Wuthering Heights, one of the books I released at last year’s mini-convention. So that’s another book that’s taken 10 months between release and catch. The finder said they’re going to send it to Austria, so I hope it gets another journal entry when it…
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Forgot to add this (and the previous entry is so long, I thought a new entry might be in order): Despite having travelled between Christchurch and Alexandra many times over the years, I have never managed to see Mount Cook from Lake Tekapo – it’s always been clouded over. Well, last Friday I finally got…
The perennial problem of writing a diary is that when you’re busy, you’ve got lots to write about and no time to write it, and when you’ve got plenty of time to write, you’ve got nothing significant to say… Anyway, now that the rush is over, I’ll attempt to catch up a bit. Going back…