eally really must get myself a hat. Or at least some sunscreen. Or maybe both. Or I could just be a bit more sensible about how much time I spend out in the sun… yeah, that might be a good idea too. Because I managed to get myself sunburnt again in my lunch break today…
eard the news this morning that Miketroll died yesterday. He’s been battling pancreatic cancer for many months, and lasted much much longer than anyone expected (back in June he’d been given a prognosis of only a couple of months to live), so it’s not exactly a shock that he’s gone, but it’s still a sad…
irst Toastmasters meeting of the year tonight, and as always it was a lot of fun. I was the “Table Topics Master”, in charge of the impromptu speaking section of the meeting. I did have a set of prompts prepared to use to assign speaking topics, but as it turned out we had a huge…
nother stupidly hot day (although apparently it is a couple of degrees cooler than yesterday at least). We’ve got all the windows open in the office (air conditioning? what’s that?) to very little effect, but at least we can take comfort from the fact that we’re cooler than the roofers we can see working on…
artankiwi has announced a “quilt-along” for a quilt she’s designed, and I’m so tempted to join in. It’s an amazing design, featuring all sorts of paper-pieced birds, with loads of different options for the final layout. And I really enjoyed doing the wee challenge with the butterflies, seeing how everyone interpreted the pattern differently. But. …
usker’s Festival is on at the moment, so Lytteltonwitch and I went to see Promise and Promiscuity tonight, a one-woman show based (loosely) around Jane Austen’s works, with a lot of modern references thrown in. It was very cleverly done, with the actor (who also wrote the script) putting on different voices and mannerisms as…
Nothing much to write about, so it must be about time for a catch report (is it seriously 6 months since the last one???): Nine Uses For An Ex-Boyfriend by Sarra Manning – released in the College of Arts waiting area (I’ve had some good catches from there, actually – I really must get round…
he problem with being back at work is that it cuts down on the interesting things to blog about. Not that work isn’t interesting, but a lot of it is the sort of interesting that sounds really boring when you try and describe it, and some is the kind of interesting that I can’t really…
ack at work, and it was definitely a struggle to get up and organised this morning. That’s the trouble with holidays, doing nothing becomes way too much of a routine. But I managed to wake up sufficiently to clean the cat fur off my backpack (apparently Parsnips had been using it for a bed while…
nother thing I achieved yesterday was finally getting round to scrubbing and sanding down my old kauri chopping board. This chopping board has a bit of history. It began life as a wooden sink-bench in the old Eventide Home in Dunedin (I haven’t been able to figure out exactly when the Home was built, but…