ecember weather is notoriously changeable in Christchurch, but it’s been outdoing itself this year – the temperature has been going from high 20s to just above freezing and back again in the space of a few days, and yesterday we had two huge storms, with thunder and hail and all sorts of drama. The first…
(Warning to family-type people who read this blog: there are Christmas-present spoilers below. If you don’t want the surprise ruined, stop reading now. Alternatively, if anything really catches your eye, let me know and I’ll make sure that one’s your present 🙂 ) anuary and the start of my masters is looming large, so I’m…
igns are abounding that Christmas is on its way. I already have six different Christmas/end-of-year parties in my calendar (sounds like I have a really impressive social life, but the majority are work-related), and plans are being made in our corridor at work for the annual door-decorating competition (which, of course, our office won last…
Now that Christmas is out the way, I can finally show you all the work-in-progress photos I took of the secret project I spent the last few days working on – a Christmas/welcome home/house re-warming present for Lytteltonwitch. Planning: Sewing: Quilting: And the finished product: I’m pretty proud of my work 🙂 I stumbled across…
pent this afternoon with Lytteltonwitch in the very Christmassy occupation of giraffe hunting. We weren’t the only ones, either – we ran into other people doing the same thing. Who says Christmas Day needs to be spent eating way too much food (ok, so we did that later… tacos* for dinner followed by way too…
ent to the supermarket this morning (yeah, I know, bad move on Christmas Eve, but it wasn’t actually as crowded as I expected – I didn’t even have to queue for a checkout) to grab a few things for tomorrow, and apparently there’s a world-wide raspberry shortage. Or, at least, a Christchurch-wide one. The supermarket…
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…
osting after midnight again, but I’ve decided it doesn’t count as skipping a day as long as I haven’t been to bed yet. Yeah, the logic is weak, but I’m allowed to make up the rules as I go along 🙂 The reason I’m posting so late is because Lytteltonwitch and I went out to…
‘ve cleaned up after last night’s party, and I’ve made release notes on the books we left on the Christmas Book Tree, so that means all my “have to do” stuff is finished with for the year. Now all there is left to do for the next three weeks is relax – I’m finally on…
ytteltonwitch and I attempted to revive our old tradition of the Christchurch Bookcrossing Christmas Party tonight – a limited success, seeing as so many people have moved away or given up on Bookcrossing, but Rarsberry (plus a mini-berry) and the Gwilks came, so it wasn’t a complete flop. And we had some good food, and…