Emailing people to tell them what I was up to over here sounded like far too much effort. Now the effort is squarely on the shoulders of my readers who have to trawl through regular tales of drunken nights out and quiz questions. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Charlatans in New Zealand and goodbye. Monday, August 25, 2008.

Saturday, April 11, 2009. There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this! You see, I was. So as you can see, I made every attempt to type out my correspondence, but I was thwarted by the overzealous paranoia of my coworkers and I would appreciate a little recognition for my efforts. Thursday, April 9, 2009.

Sidebar material will come in front of everyone.

Some photos of our cardboard and bamboo loom in action. Beating the weft into place. The woven cloth collecting at the front of the loom. View from the front beam. View from the back with an open shed. View from the back showing warp. View of the castle from above. The reed and the heddles. Shafts viewed from behind the castle with uplighting.

By Eve and Ruth Oosterman. This led to me playing around with a plastic knife, mixing colors Eve had picked, to create the grass at the bottom.