Dumplings and things

s predicted, winter has returned with a vengance.  A freezing cold day, followed by icy rain and wind tonight (luckily I managed to make it home just before it started).  So Parsnips has got her wish – the fire is roaring, and she is comfortably ensconced in front of it (as I will be too…

Catches

ast week I released a few books in the reception area along the corridor from our office. There’s always a queue of students waiting there to see the student advisors, so I thought some of them might appreciate a book to read while they waited.  It worked, too, because the books were snatched up very…

Continuing randomness

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…

A parcel from Canada

I participated in TexasWren’s ornament exchange again this year, and last night when I got home my ornament was waiting for me.  But not just an ornament, it was a whole box of goodies from Herchelle in Calgary. Parcels with proper stamps on them always seem much more exciting On opening the box, the first…

A quick update

I’m waiting for some files to process, so a quick chance for an update while I’ve got nothing better to do… Thanks everyone for your kind words about my cousin.  A bit more detail has emerged about the crash, but they still seem not to completely know what happened.  At this stage it sounds like…

Queenstown and things

Thanks everyone for your kind comments about Pushkin.  No sign of her yet, and no response to the flyer I circulated around the neighbours, but I won’t give up all hope just yet. So, I mentioned Queenstown briefly in the previous post, but only as an aside to the main item, so those bookcrossers among…

Random things

seem to have drastically expanded my social circles all of a sudden, joining two new groups in the space of just a couple of weeks. For a start, I’m now officially a Christchurch Blogger.  I’m even on their list of blogs!  And there’s like an official-type button I’m supposed to put on my diary somewhere…

Show and tell

Sometimes I really love my job.  This afternoon, the university’s HITLab (which stands for Human Interface Technology, for the uninitiated) had an open day.  And as we have quite a bit to do with them (we collaborated on the CityViewAR app, for example), our boss suggested we go and have a look around the other…