Took the children out of school today to listen to Terry Pratchett talk about, then sign, his books. My girl likes his stuff, as does her father who does a wonderful job reading Wee Free Men aloud ( Read more... )

Yesterday anyway.

Bought Monty Python and the Holy Grail and tried an interesting cocktail called a Time Warp, then spent ages arguing whether it was a jump to the left or a stepIn between sausage sizzles, burning myself with a hot glue gun and dying rice paper with food dye I'm trying to finish a very small, very sappy Wes/Giles snippet. Writing ( Read more... )

Federal government election last weekend, local government election this weekend. Ugh! Both times I had to vote backwards -- from last to first because there were people I abhorred but no-one I liked. It was a bit awkward this weekend as we trialled electronic voting which forces you to vote from #1. Otoh, it meant that my girl got to help me ( Read more... )

would be easier than trying to organise 15 girls aged 8 to 16 ( Read more... )

Well, holidays for some. I'm chaperoning my girl's gym squad in sunny Queensland for a week starting tomorrow. At least, it had better be sunny -- last time I was in Qld it flooded...

Previously posted to the Watcherlove list and now being used to test whether or not I am capable of using the cut feature of lj.

( Hmmm? )

Just testing to see how this works for the hopelessly non-technical and out-dated...