And the DD site has been down for days, so I couldn’t post anything. And of course I wasn’t so sensible as to just write my entries up in Notepad and copy and paste them in, so I’m sure I’ll forget some of the really cool and important stuff I was going to tell you…
I’ve actually been home for a few days, but they still felt like holiday days, mainly because Brother and the two boys came back to Christchurch with me. The trip to Christchurch was their (and my!) Christmas present, because SIL had bought us all tickets to go to a Weird Al Yankovic concert. The boys…
Going home today, but in the meantime I managed to fit a lot into the last few days of my holiday. (Note to vegetarians, vegans, and those of a delicate constitution, you probably want to skip this first paragraph). First was a hunting expedition on Saturday night. During dinner I’d mentioned to Brother that it…
(Only slightly belatedly) January: February: March: April: May: June: July: August: September: Don’t be silly, I wasn’t taking photos, I had deadlines! October: November: December: So the year started and ended with family. And despite feeling like I was too busy to do anything this year, I actually packed in quite a lot. Onwards to…
The internet is fixed, but I didn’t end up having time to go through my pictures to pick out representatives for the year, because Mum got an unexpected visitor, the son of old friends of hers. I haven’t seen him since we were about 12, so we spent a long afternoon catching up on each…
2015 is hard to summarise. I learnt a lot, I took on some huge new challenges, but mostly it’s just been incredibly busy, and has raced past in a blur. So rather than try and write anything meaningful about it, I’ll use my usual trick of recycling bits of blog entries 🙂 So, 2015 in…
Total = 112 books January (13) You Know You’re From ChCh When… compiled by Bruce Raines Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters by Alan S Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa (library audio book) Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan (e-book) Drybread by Owen Marshall The Chocolate Bear Burglary by JoAnna Carl (e-book) Angel Sister by…
It was the boys’ turn to claim their Christmas adventure today, so Dad offered to drive us up to Queenstown. Queenstown is *the* place to be for New Year’s, so the town was totally packed (yeah, probably should have thought of that before we picked today to go up there…), and we had to queue…
For Christmas, instead of giving Niece and Nephews more stuff, I decided to take the opportunity of being down here to give them something more intangible instead. So I made them each a certificate promising them a day doing whatever activity they wanted with me (as well as a little cash to go towards it…
As predicted, I spent most of yesterday mucking around in Mum’s craft room – she has so many fun toys to play with! My plan originally was just to make a few little simple gift tags (because we’re having our Christmas tonight, with Brother and family, now that they’re back from Middlemarch, and I’d forgotten…