Having finally finished off a few works-in-progress from the stash, I decided to reward myself with starting something new – a kit MrPloppy gave me for Christmas years ago, which is huge and ambitious and will probably take me even more years to finish. But aren’t the colours pretty? I didn’t actually get much stitching…
Finally finished the backstitch and beading on the dragon: Now I’ve just got to find somewhere to get it framed, seeing as my favourite framer is gone. Or maybe I’ll just add it to the ever-growing stash of things to round to framing one day… Now, what should I do next?
In a dusty corner of our porch are three large stones, one for each cat buried in our backyard. Our section sits right on top of one of the gravel banks that criss-cross the Canterbury plains, left over from the Waimakariri’s meanderings, and the reason our suburb got off so lightly in the earthquakes. It’s…
We had to have George put to sleep today 🙁 It was a bit of a shock. He was fine a few days ago, but yesterday he was looking a bit sore, and didn’t eat anything all day. So this morning we took him in to the vet, who said his bladder was very full,…
If you looked at my list of books read so far this year, you’d think I’d abandoned the idea of paper completely. Eight e-books, two audiobooks, and only two traditional print books. The situation is not quite as dire as all that though – part of the reason for the scarcity of real books is…
Almost finished! Just the backstitch to go now.
The aftershocks continue: The red lines on the seismograph are where they’ve cropped the trace so that it doesn’t totally obscure the rest of the graph. Most of them are 3s, which we don’t really feel over this side of town (the epicentres are in the east of the city or just off the coast),…
Back at work today, and I was expecting a big clean-up operation after the 23 December wobbles. But thankfully, there wasn’t too much of a mess. All my filing cabinet drawers were open, but because of our new policy of all furniture having to be bolted to either a wall or the floor, they didn’t…
It seems the earth wants to remind us that just because it’s a new year, that doesn’t mean the end of the aftershocks. We were rudely awakened twice during the night by big ones, a 5.1 at about half past one, and then a 5.5 at quarter to six. Followed, of course, by a string…
Total = 133 books January (12) The Best Awful by Carrie Fisher House Rules by Jodi Picoult Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (library audio book) Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze edited by Mick O’Hare Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett The Devious Book for Cats by Fluffy and Bonkers Pecked to Death…