If you want to participate, here’s the rules: Bold the ones you’ve read, Italicize the ones you started and didn’t finish, add three at the end. Enjoy!
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001. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
002. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
003. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
004. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, […]

To celebrate the end of my big project, Jan & I & the kids went to the mega Warehouse by the airport. And while there I saw an ACTUAL POSTER for Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince! With a release date! Somehow all the info on the internet does not seem real until one […]

Discovered today that the BBC’s adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith is screening in Britain as we speak! If you have not heard of Ms Waters, she also penned the amazing Tipping The Velvet which was made into a fantastic BBC miniseries also. Fingersmith is my favourite of her novels so I am very excited […]

Great trip to the Nui. (Jan’s new name for Wanganui - its time has come)
Noo Noo came down and babysat while Jan & I had a night away from the kiddies. We…

went to Max & Autumn’s art show and bought 5 paintings! (Reproduced below)
saw Jan’s mother Dee in a stage production of The Secret Diary […]

Women are more different than anything, any creature, (any) beautiful animal in the world. They’re just the most complex, different. I don’t think no human being has been able to just figure out the woman. As complicated as I’m explaining it to you, that’s how it is.
- P Diddy
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Have a great long weekend everyone! Myself, I am planning a bit of geocaching, a bit of lying around and a lot of jobs around the house - damn moving continues to dominate life. There is even a trip to Wanganui on the cards!

Even after six months of living in New Zealand, I am still finding exciting aspects of NZ life that I had forgotten about. Another one came up this week - Girl Guide biscuits! I don’t think they have this concept in Australia, at least I never saw them. Girl Guides sell big boxes of these […]

Jan and I have just finished watching Joss Whedon’s illfated sci fi series, Firefly, on DVD. It was cancelled before it even finished its first season. A tragedy as I thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s a true western set in outer space, horses and hovercraft, whores and psychics; a great cast of characters and fascinating […]

Just did a very interesting test on how your brain works at the BBC website. A series of tests determine whether your brain works in a male or female way. Seems like I am just about average for a woman - right on the 50/50 line.

It’s a pretty fascinating test - quite long though. Do […]