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Gah, life is a bit shitty at the moment :( Mum went into care in June, I spent a week with my sister in July, cleaning house, preparing for selling. Mum has a recurrent chest condition with bronchiectasis, probably the result of a silent TB infection when she was a graduate teacher in the 40's in Northland. My sister contacted us yesterday as Mum ( Read more... ) -
PSA - friends and friending on lj
Part of the problem seems to be that some people didn't read the memo - or at least, didn't read the discussions back in the day when lj was more of a community, about why the idea of "friends" and "friending" was potentially problematic, because it suggested people were closer than they perhaps really were. So here is the primer ( Read more... ) -
I will be back...
I meant to start off the New Year before now with some journal posting. Things kinda got in the way, which FB friends and reeenactor friends mostly know about. Things like a trip to Melbourne to chair a get-together of reenactors about some proposed new regs which will really stuff things up unless they alter the proposal, and getting ready for our ( Read more... ) -
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I have just seen a notice about the 10th Knitting History Forum, at the London College of Fashion next Saturday, and am posting it in case any fibre-entranced friends are interested ( Read more... ) -
London
Totally failing to fill in the gaps ( Read more... ) -
UK Travel Day 6
Why do I keep waking at 4 am? At least I got several hours sleep last night - the night firing (artillery and automatic weapons) at Lulworth Range was strangely soothing ( Read more... ) -
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30 minute engineering delay for QF1. Oh well, more time to charge all the things!
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The briefest of posts, because I will be travelling again tomorrow.
Item One: St Ives Medieval Faire went off pretty well despite un-springlike heat.
Two: ten days around the South Island was busy but fun (Mt Cook was grand, but Oamaru was delightful, even without the penguins).
Three: Apparently Christchurch is now the only place in the world ( Read more... ) -
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Trip planning has been put on hold for a day or two while I sort out some things that are happening this month!
( But I'm very interested in this: )