So many ways to sum up a year. First(ish) sentences: January: I know I said we were going to have a quiet night and probably not even see the New Year in, but plans do have a habit of changing. February: It’s the first of February, so that means TWO MONTHS UNTIL AMERICA!!! March: We’re…
The dragon has a head!
My plan for a lazy holiday is working well. In one sense I’m achieving very little with my days off (I’m not even getting as much reading done as I’d expected), but in another, I’m achieving exactly what I planned – totally relaxing and letting the stress of the year drift away. I reckon by…
I spent Christmas in the best possible way – sitting in the shade of a tree reading, and eating raspberries (you Northern Hemisphere-types might get all the pretty of a white Christmas, but it’s tough to compete with fresh raspberries!). We decided as we’d both spent last Christmas away from home in different directions, with…
Ok, this is just getting tedious now. Two more big earthquakes today, a 5.8 and a 6.0, both followed by many many many smaller aftershocks. We’re ok over this side of town (we had a few small things fall over, and all the water sloshed out of George’s water bowl, but nothing broken this time)…
It’s just as fiddly as I remembered it, but I’m slowly making progress. (Oh, and Yetzirah, I do sometimes use the multi-needle trick, but I don’t think I have enough needles to cover all the colours just in one of those swirls in the border!) My other creative project for the weekend was baking a…
Now that the advent calendar is finished, I’m seriously tempted to start a brand new project. But I’m forcing myself to be good and have fished something out of my unfinished project stash: This one dates back even further than the advent calendar – in fact, the pattern comes out of the same book I…
I went into the Square on Sunday. That might not seem like a huge achievement, but to the people of Christchurch, it’s enormous. Cathedral Square (or just “the Square” to most Cantabrians) is the centre, and very much the heart, of Christchurch. It’s the site of our iconic cathedral, it’s where tourists and locals congregate…
Ok, so it took me a lot of years, but I finally finished the advent calendar! It’s got little ornaments to hang off the calendar to mark off the days: I started it with the intention of giving it to my nephew (that’s how long I’ve been working on it – there was only one…
Yesterday’s mail: I got a corporate Christmas card, MrPloppy got a bank statement, and George got a parcel from Lytteltonwitch. He didn’t seem to appreciate getting mail much though – after a quick sniff to make sure it wasn’t food or a lap, he got bored and wandered off, so we opened it for him:…