The colours of autumn

The view from the balcony at work. Soon we'll be able to see the clocktower.

In the news

The value of a good librarian...

Happy birthday, Hairy Maclary! From Kerre Woodham, TVNZ, TV3 - we ALL love Hairy Maclary.

New game...

Roger Sutton's blog is so much fun...

Check out this entry - games to play on public transport... and with children's books titles. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about adult books to join in the game...

Winter wonder and woe

There are things I love about winter...
The clothes; the coats; the hats; the scarves... Western Springs on a cold morning. The crispness of the air.
There are things I loathe about winter...
The main one is - the lack of umbrella etiquette. Is it so hard to keep your (furled) umbrella close to your side - not sticking out behind you, ready to skewer unwary pedestrians?

The joys of public transport

Normally it's an hour bus trip home - ie I leave work just before 5 and get home around 6 (5 minutes either side). Today, yep traffic on the motorway was bad - but the bus driver compounded the issue by deciding to take a detour out of the traffic. Bad call. It was bad everywhere. So (this will make sense to those with a bit of knowledge of West Auckland), instead of just getting off the motorway at Waterview (as per normal) or even Pt Chev and going along Great North Road, we ended up going past Pak'n'Save in Mt Albert! WAY out of the way. And walked in the door at 6.40... Ok, the time would probably be the same if he'd just travelled the normal route - but very disconcerting trip all the same.

It's just like paper dolls!

Confession time. I was addicted to paper dolls as a kid. Made my own outfits for them. Treasured my mum's collection from the 40s/50s (Rita Hayworth from Carmen included), even reverted as an adult and bought nice new ones (for no apparent reason, really).

And now, thanks to the Society, there's online librarian dress up!

Happiness is memories and time reverting to childhood - and being childlike (not childish)

Youtubing

I tried putting this on last night - but there was a technical hitch... like the song (either original or this) and the video...

Youtubing

Starring one of our regular customers...