I’ve been trying to add more on my garden diary blog. Some of the diary entries are typed out on my laptop and so I copy and paste. The laptop is incredibly slow – why I don’t know, so it’s a long and arduous process. (Selecting paragraphs without a mouse is a pain too.) The [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Bloomin’ ‘eck
Posted in interests, tagged blog posts, garden diary on 26 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Weekend report
Posted in home, visits, tagged Il Capo, IPC, Mario Puzo, Monet, wedding, Wellington on 21 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The wedding was fine. They were lucky with the weather. Started at 3pm (approximately) at the duck pond in the Botanical Gardens in Wellington.
Didn’t start getting cold until the sun went behind the trees. Very nice.
The scandal of the day was that the bride’s aunt (mother’s sister) and 2 cousins didn’t show up. Apparently the [...]
Tired!
Posted in visits, tagged daylight saving, fatigue, wedding on 17 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Surely I should have got over the daylight saving changes by now but I’ve felt extremely tired for the past two weeks. The other night I went to bed at 8.20pm I was so tired and tonight I felt equally ready to go to bed half an hour ago (it’s now 9pm). Perhaps it’s the [...]
Glad to be home
Posted in visits on 13 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The jazz festival was a disappointment. There were fewer bands and much of it wasn’t even jazz. A new part of the festival involved paying $10 to enter the (normally free) historic village to listen to more jazz bands. Some of it was ok but, again, some of the bands were not playing jazz or [...]
April already
Posted in interests, music, visits, work, tagged easter, wedding, WOMAD on 2 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last month went quickly.
It felt very weird to finish up at my last workplace. I miss some of the people (but not the culture). I don’t regret working there. It just wasn’t challenging enough and the pay was pitiful.
Work at the new place is fine. Learning new stuff and getting on with it. There’s plenty to [...]
