we had planned on a trip to mt hutt or the like today, coz em's was desperate for snow seeing. but due to the nature of snow being cold and the like, we decided to flag this idea and go look at pretty paintings in the warm art gallery instead. then there were wanderings over to lyttleton to see the sea and warm up with toast,eggs and coffee!!! 
if you are from auckland, coming to christchurch is difficult in the sense that you can not, honestly can not, get your bearings. in auckland you are used to going up and down hills and seeing across the city constantly. for the past twelve years, the hypodermic needle that is the sky tower, has been a constant point of referral. prior to this it was generally one tree hill, mt eden, the harbour bridge, or simply just the sea.
christchurch has none of these landmarks, only the port hills, and often you can't even see those, either because of low cloud or smog, or simply because christchurch is so damn flat, you can't get an angle of view. i still get a little disorientated at times and think east is north and south is east.
my friend emma pemma is coming down from temperate akl today to visit for a couple of days. with it having been no warmer than about 8 degrees here for the last, oh i don't know how long, it was most necessary to ensure a warm bed for her to sleep in at nite. So having been using the flannelette sheets ourselves, they need to be washed and dried today. YAY for cafe's with attached laundry's. we sat, had coffee and read the sunday papers while the sheets dried. mmm - nothing like warm washing straight out of the dryer either!
after two years of studying photography, i have a fair number of photos, framed and unframed, lying around my place. unfortunately very few are actually hanging on the walls, mainly because they aren't framed....must get more done so that i don't have to stare at myself continuously!
today though i did decide i needed to put what i have framed up on the walls so it would at least remind me that i need to get more images framed.
it was one of those days where things just kept going wrong...or rather i was just having a 'clutz' day. the last straw was my desperation for a drink of fizz and i went to get the last bottle i had. i picked it up and it just slipped out of my hand - argh! it was a mess and frustrating....grrr. 
caught up with a couple of friend's tonite, one of who's birthday it was, the other is leaving to go back 'home' to aukalofa tomorrow(auckland for those not so clear on nz geography name changes). as always with these two there were plenty of inappropriate comment, jokes and laughter. what a great nite! oh how i will miss the daily name-calling. this is apparently what happens when you are a wife!!! ended the evening with obligatory blackboard photos. these friend's are definite keepers! 
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