y potential cold remains at bay, so I decided to use my day off to attend a few writers’ festival events. The first was a talk by psychologist Michael Corballis about his new pop-psychology book The Wandering Mind. It’s based on the idea that letting your mind wander is actually a good thing, because that’s…
art of the rules of the Butterfly Challenge was that you hve to add a link to a photo or blog post about your entry to a “linky” on TartanKiwi’s original post, so that everyone can see each other’s entries. As a result, I’ve been getting a lot of comments on my Catterfly post, all…
zzzzzz… ok, so I’m not actually that tired, but I couldn’t resist an excuse to use that dropcap 🙂 . I am kind of sleepy though – I was out late-ish last night, and it was a bitterly cold night, so when I got home the house was freezing, which meant (despite the best efforts…
s predicted, winter has returned with a vengance. A freezing cold day, followed by icy rain and wind tonight (luckily I managed to make it home just before it started). So Parsnips has got her wish – the fire is roaring, and she is comfortably ensconced in front of it (as I will be too…
have got a cat attempting to force her way on to my lap as I type this. I think it’s in protest over the fact that I haven’t lit the fire tonight, so she hasn’t got anywhere warm to sit. Not that it’s a particularly cold night (which is why I haven’t bothered to light…
pring is still a month or two away, but it was making its eventual presence known today with blue skies and a lovely warm nor’wester (this is the only time of year when anyone in Christchurch would ever describe a nor’wester as “lovely”!!). It was rumoured to have reached 20 degrees mid-afternoon – we certainly…
t’s starting to get a little lighter in the mornings now, and the sun is usually just starting to come up as I leave the house in the mornings. This morning as I was about to leave I noticed the sky was doing all sorts of pretty colours in the east, so I dashed back…
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,…
eing an archive for the Canterbury earthquakes means 22 February is a big day for us at work. It fell on a Saturday this year, but that just meant we had one less day to prepare, because we had to have a major collection ready for launch on the 21st instead. And of course, the…
Got a surprise on the way home last night – I was walking across the campus when l heard someone call my name. The person talking to me looked familiar, but I couldn’t quite place him. But then, I met a lot of people while I was doing union work, so I’m used to people…