oday marks 11 years since I joined Bookcrossing. Not that I’ve done a huge amount of bookcrossing in the last year or three – I got out of the habit with the earthquakes and never really got back to it. Not having any other active bookcrossers in the area doesn’t help much either. I’d blame…
Six jars of cherry and apple chutney. So I’ve got no housework done (except for cleaning the kitchen to remove all the stickiness – the cutlery drawer hasn’t been this tidy in ages!), but I reckon I’ve had a pretty productive weekend 🙂
ad sent me a text a few days ago, saying friends of his were coming up to Christchurch, so he’d given them some apricots to drop off to me. Cool, thought I, there might be enough to bottle some of them – I love bottled apricots, and the tinned ones from the supermarket just aren’t…
s you can probably tell from the sudden drop-off in blog posts, life is very much back into the normal pattern of work, work, and more work, and feeling like there’s not enough hours in the day to get everything done I want to (and term hasn’t even started yet, so there’s still study to…
finished the quilt! And thanks to a few hints and tips from Dancingstar I managed to do it without a single stitch of the dreaded handsewing (for which I am truly thankful, because it was a really long way around that binding even on a machine – if I’d had to do it by hand,…
I didn’t have time to post these the other night, but here’s a few photos from the afternoon at Little River. Pretty much the essence of summer: I would be incredibly jealous of their house, which is a lovely wee cottage in the classic NZ early settlers style, but then I remember how far they…
here did the time go? Suddenly two weeks have raced past and my holiday is over 🙁 I haven’t achieved half of what I’d intended to (of course), but I have had a lovely break, got a few things done, and spent some pleasant times with friends, and really, what more can you ask from…
mazingly, I actually made a decision. And not only that, I sewed the blocks together, so now I’m committed to that decision (well, I suppose if I was really determined to change my mind I could always break out the quick-unpick, but yeah, nah). Not all the squares line up properly, and it doesn’t quite…
Total: 129 books January (17) Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (e-book) The Sandman: The Wake by Neil Gaiman (graphic novel) Live Alone and Like It by Marjorie Hillis Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire by Derek Landy (borrowed from Nephew) The Favoured Child by Philippa Gregory (library audio book) Save Yourself, Mammal! by Zach…
ickens had it right: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It seems like every year lately I’ve summed up the year as being full of horrible stuff interspersed with some pretty good stuff, and expressed the hope that next year can only get better. And yep, once again there’s…