Things that were good about today: I had lunch with Harvestbird, which is always enjoyable, and had the bonus today that she came bearing gifts: leftover birthday cake and a bag of blackboy peaches (terrible name, excellent peaches). My cold is, if a long way from gone, at least beginning to reduce in intensity. It…
y shiny new YHA membership card arrived today. It is shiny, in fact, because when my membership expired last month the reminder came with an offer to upgrade to a lifetime gold membership for a reduced price. And when I did the calculations, I worked out that over the years I’ve renewed my membership enough…
I think Mum is having as much fun with my new patchwork/quilting obsession as I am – she keeps sending me little packages of fabric to feed my ever-growing stash. Yesterday a parcel arrived from her via Trademe, with this fantastic selection: None of the pieces are huge, but they don’t need to be for…
was confused last night to hear a strange booming noise in the distance. It sounded like fireworks, but Classical Sparks was last week, so I couldn’t figure out what it would be. I looked out the kitchen window, because sometimes fireworks in town are just visible from there (Hagley Park is about 5 km away…
ust got a call from the builders – they finally got the results back about the asbestos testing (only a week after they said they’d have them…) The bad news is, they found asbestos. The good news is, it’s going to be a simple job to remove the offending panel, so they’re going to do…
ot a call this morning from the builder that the insurance company have appointed. They can’t start work on repairing the damaged eaves until they’ve been tested for asbestos. Because of the age of the house, it’s very likely the material the eaves are made of (which looks kind of like thin concrete) is fibrolite,…
ate last night I was woken up by a strange scraping sound outside. It was quite windy, so I assumed it was just a tree branch rubbing against the window somewhere, so (after trying unsuccessfully to ignore it and go back to sleep) I got dressed and went outside to investigate. And discovered it wasn’t…
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…
y holiday is almost over, and as usual I didn’t achieve half the things I’d planned to do, but on the other hand, I did achieve a lot of things I didn’t plan to do (like an impromptu trip down to Alexandra) so it all evens out in the end. And after a big burst…
It’s been fun having the kids here, but I’m SO glad they’re going home tomorrow – I’m exhausted! Niece and I had our special “girls only” day today. When I asked her what she wanted to do, she said “Shopping!”, so our first stop was Riccarton Mall. I was relieved to discover that her boredom…