A week or so ago, I had a toothache. On a Friday afternoon, of course, because things like toothaches never happen on a day when it’s easy to get a dentist’s appointment. But I somehow managed to at least get in to see my normal dentist’s assistant. Who, after a bit of poking and prodding,…
What, a blog post about a convention that was only two weeks ago? What is this madness?? So, yes, the Aus/NZ Bookcrossing convention (or unconvention, technically) was the weekend before last, on Stewart Island. Stewart Island is not the most obvious place for a convention (for the foreigners, it’s that little island at the very…
Seeing as the conference was on a Friday, I decided to stay up in Wellington for the weekend. Discoverylover, as well as offering me a bed, arranged a bookcrossing meetup for the Friday evening, so after the conference finished I walked down to the railway station to meet up with her and the other bookcrossers…
It’s a grey and drizzly day, and not at all ideal for photographing quilts, but I finished binding the Little Squares quilt last night, and I’m off to Wellington tomorrow (these are completely unrelated events, except that being in Wellington will mean I won’t get another chance to take a better photo of the quilt…
Having been unsuccessful at figuring out which wire to wiggle to get my second hard drive working again, I gave in and paid a professional to look at it. And it turns out that the reason my wire-wiggling wasn’t working this time was because the hard drive had entirely failed. So, unless I want to…
Saturday 23 April, 11 am, at the convention We’re about to have a guest speaker, and I’m not sure whether they’ll be speaking in English or Greek, so this seems like a good opportunity to catch up a bit. So, after Zeus’s temple we wanted to try and find the Lykia where Aristotle taught. It…
Friday 22 April Another long and super busy day. Last night, of course, was the pre-convention dinner. We made it there only a few minutes late (at the expense of not having had time to go home and get cleaned up and changed first, as we’d hoped to), and quickly spotted the other bookcrossers. Of…
Thursday 21 April 2016, 3 pm, Athens In a seafood restaurant, having just gorged on greek salad, boiled wild greens, eggplant dip, fried zucchini, squid, sardines, mussels… just a light lunch 🙂 We’ve been on the go all day, so I still haven’t managed to sit down and write. But, briefly back to the story…
Tuesday 19 April 2016, 10 pm (Bangkok time) – somewhere over Indonesia, three hours from Bangkok I woke up from a half-sleep just in time to see one of the islands of Indonesia below us. It’s pitch dark, of course (according to the flight info screen thing, it’s 11 pm locally), but the islands are…
Got home this afternoon after 30-odd hours spent on planes and in airports. I’m incredibly tired, but attempting to stay awake at least until dark, to ward off the worst of the jet lag. Italy was amazing (as was Greece, but I think I already posted to say that 🙂 ) and we had so…