I *almost* got the corners to line up properly! One side is a tiny bit off, but not really enough to be seriously noticeable, so I’m pretty pleased with it. Of course, now that I’ve got that particular obstacle out of the way, I reach the even bigger one: it’s time to quilt it. Dare…
oastmasters meeting tonight, and for the first time I was the Toastmaster – the combination of Chairperson and Emcee who runs the meeting, introduces the speakers, and generally keeps everything on track. I was ever so slightly nervous, with so many different things to remember to do and say, but it went really well (well,…
It’s Secret Santa season, and I’m determined not to resort to junk from the Warehouse to fulfill the under-$10 requirement for any of them. Which means I’ve got a lot of crafting deadlines in my near future. But I’m making good progress. I’m almost finished making my gift for the Christchurch Bloggers Secret Santa, and…
ytteltonwitch having acquired a new car, she suggested an expedition today to introduce it to such wonders as hills and unsealed roads (its previous owner had only ever driven it around town on the flat, so the poor wee thing isn’t going to know what’s hit it, with the places Lytteltonwitch is likely to take…
n a shock move, I actually did some gardening this morning. Well, sort of – I vaguely hacked at the weeds in the herb garden (does it still count as a herb garden if the only herb in it is the rosemary plant that went feral and took over the entire garden?) to clear a…
pent today doing more work on that bibliography, mostly trying to establish whether authors with similar names are actually the same person. A task not at all helped by the fact that every journal has their own house style for authors’ names, with the added complication of the odd misspelling. So Bob Smith can be…
s part of some assistance we’re giving to a research project in another department, a colleague and I have spent the past few days building a bibliography of earthquake research. After scraping all the usual academic databases, we turned to Google Scholar, which often picks up papers that the other databases don’t, particularly newly-published material…
Finally got round to posting off my ornament for the Bookcrossing Ornament Exchange today. Or actually, two ornaments: Yes, there is a bit of a theme there 😉 I got the felt pohutukawa flower ages ago when Mum was up and we were browsing the Ballantyne’s Christmas displays. But then when I was in Wellington,…
Super-windy this afternoon (though not as bad as it was in Wellington), with a classic Christchurch nor’wester. So yay, nice warm day, but not so yay having to battle the wind walking home – I felt like I’d run a marathon by the time I got home. At least my difficulties weren’t as bad as…
As promised, notes from my Wellington trip. They’re a bit disjointed, because I didn’t keep a proper travel diary, just noted down things that I wanted to remember to include in my blog. Of course, I could write them up into proper paragraphs and stuff, but where’s the fun in that? 😉 Wednesday There’s a…