Ok, so I’m about 9 hours too late, but I was too tired last night once the visitors left. Yeah, 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. I’d offered to cook dinner for…

Still down in Alex, and in between babysitting the nephews I’ve been getting creative with all of mum’s wonderful scrapbooking supplies, making bookmarks: (The green one with a ribbon is one mum made when the temptation to join me in her crafting room got too great :-)) She’s got so many cool stamps and punches…

Down in Alexandra for a few days visiting family, but that didn’t stop me creating my now-traditional Bookcrossing Christmas tree last night. It’s just in a slightly different location than usual 🙂 Mum (TopKat) came and helped me hang the books, and was terrified we were going to get in trouble for it, especially when…

Today’s been the first properly hot day we’ve had this summer (according to the metservice, the high was 33 degrees, and it’s still about 32 now, at 6.30 pm). Poor George has spent the day collapsing in one patch of shade after another, trying to find one that’s actually cool. Not a good day to…

Suddenly it’s December, and all those little craft projects I’ve had in the back of my mind for ages have taken on a greater urgency. You may remember that way way back in February I was cross-stitching a picture of a sewing machine and mentioned I had a plan in mind for when it was…

Bookcrossers make the best guests – you don’t have to entertain them or anything. Just give them a book to read and you can happily ignore them for the rest of the afternoon, secure in the knowledge they won’t emerge from it until it’s time for dinner. Which is a roundabout way of saying Discoverylover…

Thanks, Yetzirah, it’s absolutely gorgeous!

The house is very quiet these days. Only one cat, and only one human too – H is in the UK visiting his parents, and won’t be back until February (which is why this is a locked post – I don’t really want to advertise to random internet strangers that the house is empty all…

I felt a bit guilty yesterday that I wasn’t more upset than I was, but really, I’ve known this was coming for a few months, so I’d already said my goodbyes to Saffy in my head, and yesterday was just the final step of the journey. She’d lost a lot of weight over the winter…

Just back from the vet’s. Saffy has been weakening for the last couple of weeks, and last night she took a turn for the worse, so we had her put to sleep this morning. Goodbye Saffy. I’ll write more later. ^ ^00=+=^