Lunch: pan-fried fresh snapper with home-made tartare sauce ( Read more... )

Today is my last day of leave; back to work on Monday. As much as I enjoy mucking around and doing nothing in the summer, it's probably time that I started using my brain again. The hard part is going to be knocking my sleeping patterns back into whack - I have become accustomed to going to bed around 1.30am and getting up sometime around 10.00am ( Read more... )

I have one more day of holiday and the weekend and then it's back to work for me. Since I finished Perdito Street Station (one of my to-read list these holidays), I clearly haven't been reading anything with a high enough level of mental challenge, as I'm actually starting to look forward to the work ( Read more... )

I have had a lovely weekend down in Christchurch. Spent much of Sunday sewing, and saw my brother on Monday afternoon. He has a new girlfriend, a girl whom he flatted with for the last couple of years. They're in different flats now, but obviously know each other quite well. I had actually met her before (he took me to meet her again) and so ( Read more... )

The flight down was on one of the Airbus planes, which is the biggest plane I've flown in within New Zealand. Six seats a row, lots of rows, not enough space to crossstich in (I checked that I was allowed the scissors before I went through the x-ray scanner) and small children. One of the said small children said something rude as we were leaving ( Read more... )

Just to be clear: I support the bus drivers stop work meeting. They are an extremely important part of the Wellington region transport network and should get paid accordingly. I am aware that they chose the time for this meeting (10.00am to 2.30pm) to prevent inconvenience to as many people as possible. I am also aware that they advertised the ( Read more... )

I have emailed off my registration form for the Ultimate Beach Tournament this weekend. I am glad that I'll have another two days after to recover. Not entirely looking forward to running on sand - I went down to the thing on Wellington Anniversary day for a bit and found that running on sand killed my ankles ( Read more... )

Since I left Wellington yesterday morning, without hassle since the cloud was more in Wilton than Kilbirnie, I have read on of the three books I brought up with me, purchased another, wandered through what there is of downtown Tauranga, done a few rows of crossstitch, thrown a frisbee on the beach and seen the comet with my own eyes from my parents ( Read more... )

Having had a busy couple of days (Bardsley Christmas 25th, Allis Christmas 26th), we are heading off to the beach shortly. The house at Matarangi has been there for 12 days, so I'm looking forward to seeing it for the first time. I didn't get many gifts this year - the aunts and uncles don't have to give them to any of the cousins 21 and over. ( Read more... )

Have been reading random things on my parents computer since it grew dark enough that there is no longer glare on the screen. Mostly PotC fic that I haven't read for a while (there is no new fic, where is the fic?), but also random HP stuff, and the occasionaly FFVIII piece, all of which I've read before ( Read more... )