No progress on (any of) the quilt(s), because I’ve been too busy the last couple of days being social and stuff. Dad came up yesterday, because friends of his were hosting a mini music festival out at Whitecliffs (about 70 km from Christchurch) today. He’d originally invited me to go out there with him today…
Still no news on the work front, other than that the VC is currently considering our business case, and hopefully should make a decision before our contracts run out (again…). I’m not sure if I want him to make a decision quickly just to remove the agony of waiting, or if him taking his time…
I think Mum is having as much fun with my new patchwork/quilting obsession as I am – she keeps sending me little packages of fabric to feed my ever-growing stash. Yesterday a parcel arrived from her via Trademe, with this fantastic selection: None of the pieces are huge, but they don’t need to be for…
As promised, a few photos from of the Christmas lights. Didn’t get as many good photos as I would have liked, but it was very crowded, so finding places I could put down my tripod without getting in anyone’s way, or without anyone bumping into my camera, was pretty difficult, plus I’m not familiar enough…
Nobody seemed particularly worried that we appeared to be in the middle of a scene from The Prisoner. This may have had some influence on our decision to start dinner with cake 🙂 After the belly dancers, an aerobics session (complete with Jane Fonda workout tape), and the crowd starts to join in: Not long…
I’m feeling particularly uninspired for things to write about tonight, so it must be time for a gratuitous photo of Parsnips: She’s quite scary in extreme close-up! (But isn’t the texture in her eyes cool?)
This is what central Christchurch looks like these days – still a mass of cordon fences, road works, half-demolished buildings, and vast open spaces that can feel pretty desolate: On the plus side, there’s cool artwork (official and unofficial), and a lot of the empty demolition sites have been grassed over, which makes some parts…
y potential cold remains at bay, so I decided to use my day off to attend a few writers’ festival events. The first was a talk by psychologist Michael Corballis about his new pop-psychology book The Wandering Mind. It’s based on the idea that letting your mind wander is actually a good thing, because that’s…
t’s starting to get a little lighter in the mornings now, and the sun is usually just starting to come up as I leave the house in the mornings. This morning as I was about to leave I noticed the sky was doing all sorts of pretty colours in the east, so I dashed back…
A few of the Christchurch Bloggers were meeting up at the Craft Love Fair at Mairehau High last night, so I went along. I didn’t intend to buy anything, but there was a lot of temptation on offer (and all right, I may have bought a few small things…). I was a bit braver about…