ell, so much for all the things I kept telling myself I’d do as soon as I was finished with studying for the year. All that time when I had no time for anything but work and study, I was so looking forward to having the time to read real books, and do massive craft…
y birthday party baking went really well – the bread dough rose and baked up beautifully, the cake and eclairs were suitably chocolatey and decadent (even if I did slightly mess up the icing on the eclairs by getting a little bit too experimental and forgetting that adding orange zest to give it an interesting…
I know it’s not quite July yet, but I handed in my final assignment on Thursday (it wasn’t due until next week, but I didn’t want to have to work on it this weekend, so I put in a bit of extra effort during the week (luckily my boss is supportive and kindly turned a…
(although I did spend the afternoon at a 2 year old’s birthday party, so it was a close-run thing for a bit…) I’ve been getting the odd nudge and query as to my continued existence, so I thought I’d better drop in briefly and reassure everyone that yes, I’m still alive, and I’m not avoiding…
As predicted, life for me at the moment is pretty much work, study, cook and clean just enough to keep myself alive, sleep, and repeat. But it’s worth it – I’m loving the course, and if I can get myself a wee bit ahead on the study now, it means I can take a couple…
So much for autumn, we seem to have skipped straight to winter. We’ve had three days now of gales, heavy rain, and the occasional flurry of sleet and hail. Half the city is flooded, there’s trees down all over the place, and it’s generally cold and wet and miserable. My garden is like a lake,…
erm started this week, and I’m already swamped with work (it’s worrying when the lecturer says she’s going to give you a nice easy reading for the first week, and it’s 40 pages long (and that’s not counting the two “optional” readings that go with it…). Yeah, I kind of forgot just how hard Honours…
eing an archive for the Canterbury earthquakes means 22 February is a big day for us at work. It fell on a Saturday this year, but that just meant we had one less day to prepare, because we had to have a major collection ready for launch on the 21st instead. And of course, the…
My brother and SIL were in town again this weekend for another wedding, so they popped by yesterday morning to drop off some bits and pieces from Mum (mostly random kitchen items I’d been eyeing up from a pile she was clearing out last time I was down there – most exciting being a decent…
eleasing all those books at the weekend gave me quite a few catches. As well as the one I got on the day, I’ve had three more (three new members, too): 101 Cataclysms by Rachael Hale The Master Cat by David Garnett Time for Paws by Barbara Maguire Not bad going! And looking in my…