arvestbird, the miniest mini-Harvestbird and I had planned to go to Dorothy’s this afternoon for tea and scones and cucumber sandwiches, but alas when we got to Cranmer Square there was no sign of the little green caravan. So we went to the Coffee House instead, in anticipation of cake. Unfortunately, in their reinvention they’ve…
ad dinner last night at a Vietnamese restaurant in Fendalton with a few of the women from Toastmasters. Our original plan had been to grab a quick dinner then go to a movie, but the conversation (and the meal – seriously good food) turned out to be much too enjoyable to rush, so we cancelled…
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…
ou know how I keep saying I have too many hobbies? And that I really really don’t need any more, especially of the crafty variety that involve a large investment in tools and material (not to mention time)? And that I’m really really really going to stick to just quilting and cross-stitch and lace making…
esterday wasn’t all about the elections (the less said about the results of which the better). After I finished my shift at the polling booth I walked down to Hands and stocked up on a few* supplies for a class I’m going to with MrsGwilk on Tuesday. Then, as predictions of rain had been proved…
eading back through my blog posts today to pick out the earthquake-related ones was more affecting than I expected. Even though I spending my working days looking at photographs and reading peoples’ memories from the quakes, I’d forgotten just how scary they were. I think because I wasn’t hugely affected by them in any material…
eriously frustrating day today. We had a major update go through on the site, and (as seems inevitable) it broke all sorts of things, none of which had shown up in the pre-release testing we’d done. So I spent most of the day trying to find out exactly how broken it was, trying to fix…
esterday was another very busy day (one day I really must have a restful weekend…) It started with a mad dash for the bus (after I completely miscalculated times) to get myself over to Heathcote. It’s a long trip by bus, involving a meandering (and bumpy – I always forget how bad the roads still…
t’s been a busy weekend. Yesterday afternoon I went to another film festival film, The Tale of The Princess Kaguya. A lovely animation from Studio Ghibli, based on a Japanese fairy tale. As with everything Studio Ghibli, a visually wonderful film, plus it’s always so interesting to see fairy tales from other cultures – they…
zzzzzz… ok, so I’m not actually that tired, but I couldn’t resist an excuse to use that dropcap 🙂 . I am kind of sleepy though – I was out late-ish last night, and it was a bitterly cold night, so when I got home the house was freezing, which meant (despite the best efforts…