ent out for drinks after work last night with the rest of the CEISMIC team, to a cafe just off campus. It was a lovely evening, so we sat outside, and it was all very pleasant. So much so that when everyone else started to drift away to gym classes and dates and children’s bedtimes,…
It’s 2015 here in New Zealand, even if most of the rest of the world is still to catch up, and has dawned a lovely sunny day after yesterday’s rain. I reckon that augurs great things for the year – and even if it doesn’t, I fully intend to have a good year anyway 🙂 …
I’m looking after a colleague’s animals for a few days while she’s away – a cat, and (unusually for a suburban household) two chickens. I’ve discovered there are advantages to looking after chickens – while the cat just gave me tonnes of affection when I turned up this morning, the chickens gave me a gift:…
This is the second time I’ve written this post. This morning I wrote a long (and, of course, incredibly witty and entertaining) version of it, but when I hit publish WordPress just laughed at me and ate it. And I didn’t have time to re-write it straight away, because I had to run off and…
definite theme is developing with this quilt: find ways to use up all those random experimental blocks that I made to try things out but then didn’t actually know what to do with. Oh, and break the rules a bit and don’t do things you’re supposed to do with proper quilts. Which is why I’ve…
waywithfairies asked about the cat/Christmas tree combination – amazingly, given her ability to cause havoc everywhere else, Parsnips has never shown any interest in the tree. She sniffs at it a bit when I first put it up, then completely ignores it. I took a few photos of the new additions to the tree this…
oor Parsnips got in a fight last night, and I suspect got the worst of it, because she was looking pretty sorry for herself. Lots of tufts of fur sticking out all over, and definitely a few tender spots she wouldn’t let me touch. She was looking a bit happier when I left for work…
or a change, this weekend arrived with nothing written into my diary. It actually left me feeling slightly at a loss this morning – I seem to have had something planned every weekend for months, so not having to work around being at some particular place at some particular time felt weird. But I quickly…
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?)
Lytteltonwitch asked if my mosaic was going to be a cat. No, just a random swirly pattern, but if you squint your eyes the right way it might be a cat’s tail… It may look complete, but actually I didn’t have enough of the yellow tiles to finish the sides: Plus of course it still…