(Though using the Geteld icon for the post is sort of cheating since it was in bunks ( Read more... )

Whittikers now do a 72% cocoa Ghana Peppermint chocolate ( Read more... )

Up and off to help R&S&A move. Lovely weather for it... or it was when we left home. In our local vicinity, it was a bit windy, a bit overcast, very slight drizzle. Shift a valley over to their vicinity and it was howling wind and sheeting horizontal rain - very miserable. Just as well there was a sheltered area to load the truck and they had ( Read more... )

It was a weekend. There was much packing, though possibly not enough. But at least we now have a place to move into. It has the uber garage of doom, but a slightly smaller house. Some rearrangement of stuff will be needed ( Read more... )

Sat: Did head out to Weapons of Medieval Destruction III. However did sleep in while listening to the wind howling past. It was only after we got over the Rimutaka's round lunchtime that the weather really packed it in. Headed out to the site: M&L's place. Very nice site through the rain and the oak frame building was very cool. Will be fun to see ( Read more... )

Sniffle/snuffle mild blah...

Which is why I am not out collecting firewood with basal_surge,alpha_angel, and sevenisajourney. I could probably be doing the heavy lift and carry, but fingers crossed staying home and keeping out of the wind will prevent it from worsening in time for work tomorrow ( Read more... )

A weekend of much shopping and much laundry.

Sat: Z summarizes the shopping here and K summarizes the movie in the evening here
Dinner used the enchillada sauce from here, only using 2/3 of the quantities and Pams Italian diced tomatoes for the tomato sauce. And because this in NZ, read chilli seasoning mix for chilli powder. But there was enough ( Read more... )

I am sure there were all sorts of witty things that I was going to post about over the weekend, but I ended up being too busy doing things to post about them ( Read more... )

Fri evening: Much reading of Girl Genius ( Read more... )

This morning was mostly slept through, appart from the bit where I failed to start the weed whacker (see previous entry).
This after noon was spent far more pleasantly. Headed over* to Mum and Dad's with alpha_angel and decorated the Christmas tree. This consisted of a series of steps ( Read more... )