As promised, photo of the work in progress: Gotta go now, need to get to the airport (flying up to Wellington for the day always seems like such a good idea – after all it’s just a 40 minute flight, hardly any time at all. Until you add on check-in time, and getting to and…
I know it’s not quite July yet, but I handed in my final assignment on Thursday (it wasn’t due until next week, but I didn’t want to have to work on it this weekend, so I put in a bit of extra effort during the week (luckily my boss is supportive and kindly turned a…
Thanks everyone for your kind comments about Pushkin. No sign of her yet, and no response to the flyer I circulated around the neighbours, but I won’t give up all hope just yet. So, I mentioned Queenstown briefly in the previous post, but only as an aside to the main item, so those bookcrossers among…
This is one of my favourite things at this time of year: I’ve got a large wintersweet bush in the garden, and for about 10 months of the year it’s an ugly, scraggly looking thing that I’m tempted to just rip out. But then at this time of year I remember why it’s worth keeping. …
From my travel journal: Saturday 17 November 2012, 7.30 am: In a cafe somewhere in Canberra (I don’t know, I went for a walk, so I could be anywhere…) I really should have started writing this up last night, but sleep was more urgent. It was a very long day yesterday. Started at 3.30 am…
(except I’ve updated here so irregularly lately that you probably didn’t even know I was away…) Anyway, I spent last week down in Central Otago at a conference (which was really interesting – lots of heated debates going on in the tea breaks, which is always a sign of a successful conference), with the bonus…
The rest of the trip over went smoothly. I slept on and off most of the way from Abu Dhabi to London, but was still pretty tired by the time we reached Heathrow. Then I had a 4-hour wait for the bus (which felt even longer, because I was too tired to read, so spent…
Against all expectations, I actually fell asleep on the plane, somewhere over Alice Springs (I’d been hoping to see Uluru/Ayer’s Rock, as the map originally showed us passing almost overhead, but we ended up veering further north, so it was lost in the haze). I woke up as we crossed the coast and hit a…
First (small) leg successfully accomplished. The 3 am start to be at the airport by 4.30 for a 7 am flight wasn’t fun (although the kittens approved greatly of their breakfast being served so early), but I had adrenaline to carry me through (and MrPloppy had the anticipation of going home and back to bed…
As promised, pictures of springyness: