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:…
“Square meander” “Nesting boxes” – further proof that I’m not good at the structured, regular stuff. Of course, I could have done something sensible like draw in chalk guidelines first, but where’s the fun in that? “Paisley” And then work ground to a halt because I ran out of cotton. So I’ll have to walk…
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…
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…
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…
ytteltonwitch came over today, and we went to investigate a charity shop she’d found that had the bookcrossing holy grail: three books for a dollar. They had a really good selection, too, so I ended up investing $10 in stocking up with potential themed releases (I was punished for such extravagance when the pile fell…
e’re trialling a new scheme at work to have volunteers come in and help out with the archive. I’m running the project (which is exciting and scary at the same time – it could turn into something really big if we do it right), so I’ve been casting around for a first volunteer to test…
ast night was fun, but I didn’t get home until 11.30 – which wouldn’t have been a problem except that I had to get up at 6 to catch the complicated series of buses to get me over to New Brighton (getting anywhere by bus on a Sunday morning is not fun – when I…