eard the news this morning that Miketroll died yesterday. He’s been battling pancreatic cancer for many months, and lasted much much longer than anyone expected (back in June he’d been given a prognosis of only a couple of months to live), so it’s not exactly a shock that he’s gone, but it’s still a sad…
irst Toastmasters meeting of the year tonight, and as always it was a lot of fun. I was the “Table Topics Master”, in charge of the impromptu speaking section of the meeting. I did have a set of prompts prepared to use to assign speaking topics, but as it turned out we had a huge…
usker’s Festival is on at the moment, so Lytteltonwitch and I went to see Promise and Promiscuity tonight, a one-woman show based (loosely) around Jane Austen’s works, with a lot of modern references thrown in. It was very cleverly done, with the actor (who also wrote the script) putting on different voices and mannerisms as…
ack at work, and it was definitely a struggle to get up and organised this morning. That’s the trouble with holidays, doing nothing becomes way too much of a routine. But I managed to wake up sufficiently to clean the cat fur off my backpack (apparently Parsnips had been using it for a bed while…
Ok, so not entirely wasting today: I have at least sorted through a few photos from the trip to Alexandra. Lake Tekapo looking spectacular as usual: Possibly the clearest view I’ve ever seen of Mt Cook/Aoraki, above Lake Pukaki: Playing with toy cars while we wait for lunch at the Shaky Bridge Cafe: A ramp…
As predicted, the kids stayed up until the very early hours playing computer games – they tell me it was “only” until 1 am, but I woke up a couple of times in the night and could still hear them, so I suspect it was actually much later. Which meant they didn’t get up until…
We went out geocaching again this morning (Lytteltonwitch is trying to meet a milestone for the total number of caches she’s found), but thankfully it wasn’t quite so hot today, especially as we ended up clambering around over rocks and hills again, climbing down from the top of the rocks above the Clock for one…
I’d forgotten just how hot it can get down here. Such a hot day today – a high of 33 according to the Metservice (and they usually underestimate the temperature by a few degrees, because their recording station is near the river), and even now, at 7 pm, it’s over 31. And it’s been slightly…
It’s after midnight, so once again I’m technically breaking my posting streak, but it’s been a busy day so I kind of forgot until now. And now I’m really tired and would much rather just go to bed than post, but somehow I’ve got myself trapped into this “can’t break my streak of daily posts”…
Three more squares done, using patterns from the ‘A Few Scraps‘ blog: “Topography” – I like this one almost as much as the wood grain one – nice and easy, forgiving of mistakes, and looks cool when it’s done. “Leafy Branches” – a bit trickier (lots of backtracking!), but looks great. I was really starting…