uess who I had lunch with today? Yep, Lytteltonwitch. She’s finally returned from her wanderings and sufficiently over her jetlag, and I had the day off, so we arranged to meet in town for lunch, followed by a walk around town so she could get lost due to the lack of familiar landmarks. After an…
his year is seriously racing past. It’s the end of the academic year tomorrow, and already murmurs about Christmas parties are arising from various quarters – where did the year go??? I’m sure it was only a couple of weeks ago that I finished studying myself, but a whole semester has gone past since then!…
esterday I took the day off so Mum and I could do some serious shopping. Except neither of us is very good at serious shopping, so it quickly devolved into a bit of vague wandering around the shops deciding we didn’t actually want to buy anything anyway, interspersed with many many breaks for tea and…
Mum bought a Christmas present for the kids today – a digital microscope. Seriously cool – we’ve just spent about an hour playing with it “testing it out to make sure it works ok” before she puts it away for Christmas, and it’s been so much fun. We were pulling out everything we could find…
um arrived last night for a week’s visit (I’ve only been inviting her to come up to Christchurch for about a year…). I’ve got to be at work for most of the week (though I did manage to book a couple of days off), so I think we’ll both survive the visit with sanity intact…
t may look a bit underwhelming next to yesterday’s photos of the amazing Crack’d for Christchurch mosaics, but I’m happy enough with how my little attempt is progressing, for a first effort. I finally got round to doing the grouting this morning, and it’s now drying, ready to be polished tonight. It was, as promised,…
arvestbird, the miniest mini-Harvestbird and I had planned to go to Dorothy’s this afternoon for tea and scones and cucumber sandwiches, but alas when we got to Cranmer Square there was no sign of the little green caravan. So we went to the Coffee House instead, in anticipation of cake. Unfortunately, in their reinvention they’ve…
onsidering this is supposed to be a blog about bookcrossing, I don’t actually mention bookcrossing very often. Possibly something to do with the fact that I don’t do bookcrossing very often these days (in fact, I even discovered today that I’ve been without wings for quite some time, which never used to happen!) I’m not…
ight, I promised you a description of Tuesday’s pōwhiri. It was due to start at 9.30, but we were instructed to be there at least 15 minutes early, because once the pōwhiri gets started, it’s incredibly rude to interrupt it, so basically, if you’re late, you miss out (and as missing the pōwhiri would have…
ēnā koutou katoa, Ko Kopuwai te maunga, Ko Mata-au te awa, Ko Ngāti Pākehā te iwi, Ko MacMillan te hapū, Nō Ōtākou au, Kei Ōtautahi ahau e noho ana, He CEISMIC Production Coordinator taku mahi, Ko FutureCat taku ingoa, Nā reira, tēnā koutou katoa. Greetings to you all, Kopuwai (the Old Man Range in Central…