Category: Just me

Posts about me, my family and friends (yes I have some), Seymour the Wonder Cat and his not-so-trusty sidekick Norman the Newbie Cat and life in general, both online and offline

You lookin’ at me?

Seymour the Wonder Cat’s liking our place in the house but has taken to sitting on the desk and hassling me again. Click on the images to see them full size.

I think the rubber band broke

Today’s been … er, fun?  It started out incredibly cold, and icy, and slippery (and not in a good way, if you know what I mean). After braving the elements and actually making getting to work, things were going along…

Holy ice cubes Batman

It’s cold out there! Just went out to the garage to chuck some paper in the recycle bin and lock up and nearly froze my rather ample arse off.  Colder than a polar bear’s dangly bits (if you know what…

Socks, the final frontier

My husband has a problem … a sock problem. He has more socks than any man should ever need. Sure, many have holes in inconvenient places but he refuses to part with them. He used to have an even bigger…

The wanderers return

We’re back after a quick trip to Alexandra to visit my father-in-law, who was admitted to hospital again after collapsing at home. This time around, they reckon his high blood pressure has turned to low blood pressure so his medication…

Oooh, a secret

I got some good news today. But it’s a secret. Watch this space! Oh, but it DOESN’T relate to one of my photos being used for the Schmap Sydney guide. It was very nice that they asked me if I’d…

Dirty weekend?

We’re off to Wanaka for the weekend for our wedding anniversary. I guess 13 years is a reasonable achievement these days! A friend suggested we were off for a dirty weekend, but hell, I’m not sure about that. I’m taking…

Help for Aussie bushfire victims

I’ve just made a wee donation to the bushfire appeal and have swiped all this info on how to go about it from the site I work for (hey, I’d already prettied it all up for one website, didn’t see…

Inkspirational statistics

Ooh, there are a lot of us. One in five in fact. So, that’s 20 percent of the New Zealand population with some form of ink on their bodies. Even more interesting, it’s more likely to be young women than…