went to a Toastmasters speech competition last night – not as a competitor (I’m not quite experienced enough for that yet!), but I did end up having a role: they needed someone to be the timer, keeping a note of how long each speaker spoke for, and operating the warning lights. Toastmasters puts a lot…
ast night my Toastmasters club had a mid-winter outing – dinner at the Old Vicarage in Halswell. It was a really fun evening (and a wonderful dinner – Akaroa salmon and caramel steamed pudding) – we had a big square table in a private room, and conversations flowed around and across the table. I’m really…
So much for autumn, we seem to have skipped straight to winter. We’ve had three days now of gales, heavy rain, and the occasional flurry of sleet and hail. Half the city is flooded, there’s trees down all over the place, and it’s generally cold and wet and miserable. My garden is like a lake,…
erm started this week, and I’m already swamped with work (it’s worrying when the lecturer says she’s going to give you a nice easy reading for the first week, and it’s 40 pages long (and that’s not counting the two “optional” readings that go with it…). Yeah, I kind of forgot just how hard Honours…
DD has been down again, or at least, the ability for some of us to log in properly has been, so these two entries are ones I wrote over the last couple of days but haven’t been able to post until now (so the “yesterday”s are several days ago now – I’ve added in the…
The good news is, I finished the machine sewing part of the minecraft face mats. Work in progress – mats at various stages of completion. Machine sewing finally done! Of course, that means the bad news is I’m up to the hand-sewing part. Which is the slow and difficult bit (well, it is if you’re…
I’m waiting for some files to process, so a quick chance for an update while I’ve got nothing better to do… Thanks everyone for your kind words about my cousin. A bit more detail has emerged about the crash, but they still seem not to completely know what happened. At this stage it sounds like…
seem to have drastically expanded my social circles all of a sudden, joining two new groups in the space of just a couple of weeks. For a start, I’m now officially a Christchurch Blogger. I’m even on their list of blogs! And there’s like an official-type button I’m supposed to put on my diary somewhere…