s predicted, winter has returned with a vengance. A freezing cold day, followed by icy rain and wind tonight (luckily I managed to make it home just before it started). So Parsnips has got her wish – the fire is roaring, and she is comfortably ensconced in front of it (as I will be too…
have got a cat attempting to force her way on to my lap as I type this. I think it’s in protest over the fact that I haven’t lit the fire tonight, so she hasn’t got anywhere warm to sit. Not that it’s a particularly cold night (which is why I haven’t bothered to light…
hat took a lot longer than expected (probably something to do with the number of unpickings and resewings I ended up doing, and not at all helped by changing my mind at the last minute about how I’d done the body of the butterfly (I’d originally used a lighter shade of grey to contrast with…
ot that I’d ever complain, but we get a ridiculous amount of annual leave. Five weeks a year, plus an extra four days at Christmas (on top of the statutory holidays), and another day at Easter. So effectively six weeks of holiday a year. Which is seriously cool, but also sometimes difficult to actually use…
abbit is a very pleasant meat to eat, but it smells disgusting while it’s cooking, especially when boiled. Same goes for hare. I’m currently cooking meatballs made from some hare mince my brother gave me, and even though I know they’ll taste fantastic once they’re done, I’m trying to avoid spending any time in the…
o it turns out that (as I kind of knew it would be) the pattern I designed is horribly complicated to sew. Lots of tiny fiddly bits, and sections that need to be lined up (read: sewn and unpicked because it’s wrong and resewn and unpicked again…), with the added challenge that because it’s a…
ou guys know me. You know what happens when a craft catches my attention: I spend some time learning the basic skills, maybe go to an introductory class, do a bit of internet research… and then jump straight into the most complex high-difficulty project imaginable, and try and work out how to do it from…
very few weeks at work someone in the office will declare it time for a cake run, and one of us will run down to the cafe for a selection of cakes and slices. Such a need arose this morning, so I duly undertook the cake run and we had a morning-tea break enhanced by…
pring is still a month or two away, but it was making its eventual presence known today with blue skies and a lovely warm nor’wester (this is the only time of year when anyone in Christchurch would ever describe a nor’wester as “lovely”!!). It was rumoured to have reached 20 degrees mid-afternoon – we certainly…
ig excitement at work today was a visit from the Mayor. She’d been invited by one of our directors to learn more about the archive and what we’re doing, especially as we’ve been working with the City Council on a few projects. Of course, as soon as senior management heard she was going to be…