I snapped this picture with my phone several months ago. It's outside a house down by the train station, where, sure enough, there was a real estate sign for several weeks. One day it disappeared, and was eventually replaced with this. Looks like the estate agent got fed up with our local vandals...

 

The sign reads: "Notice: To the person who thought it was a good idea to smash our real estate sign (it cost me $120.00) You are an IDIOT. Idiot n. 1. A person with severe mental retardation (Collins Shorter Dictionary 1993)"

I laughed a lot.

(Click on photo for a larger version)

Dear Sounisians: You won't believe this. 

Remember this post?

Looks like our esteemed authoress has taken a break from 'Eugenides and the Bath Bomb of Doom', upped sticks and taken a stealth visit to New Zealand.

With her knitting needles.



Cuba Mall, Wellington

( Looks like this is the Summer version of the tree cosy ( )
I think this was actually part of the Cuba Street Festival, which was on last week.
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I finished my map!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I officially have too much time on my hands, and so I tried to research and map the geography of Eddis, Attolia and Sounis. And tried. And tried. And screwed up drafts and threw them at the walls.
And finally, I have something geographically coherent. Even if the river does run uphill. 

Anyway, I'm going to wait till the results of the song contest on Sounis are up (lol. I can't wait to see who wins!) and then I'll post it on there. I just wanted to celebrate!

Here is a snippet of what the finished map looks like:


Since I drew it longhand and scanned it in, the colours are just slightly off - a bit faded, I think. Ah well!


Edited: Exclamation mark overload, anyone?

I found out something weird about my name today.
It's Frith, by the way. And according to Mum, it's basically the same name as Jennifer. Say what?
Apparently, Frith and Jennifer both belong to the Guinevere / Jennifere / Guinefred / Winifrid / Frid / Frith name family, going way back to Old pre-Norman english.

You know what this means? I have basically the same name as Ginny Weasley.
Because both our names are variants of Guinevere.

Well... in some alternate universe, maybe.
Laters