^ by Eqcomics (via Good Mail Day)

An important question I meant to include in the survey post last week was - What makes a good letter? Do you have any answers for this question? A list of necessary ingredients? What makes a bad letter? I find the "what makes a good letter?" question a hard one. When you read one you know, but it's hard to put your finger on just what makes it so good. I would say honesty and humour are always good ingredients.

Today I made about five pages for the slowly evolving mail themed zine I'm making. I will definitely update on it's progress.

I just thought it was time to post a cat picture. This is one of our cats, her name is Mesca. She has belonged to C for a long time. She doesn't like cuddles or being touched, but she is pretty and gives off an air of being highly intelligent and she looks cute when she naps. I can't help but let out a *squee* when I see her folding her paws. Very occasionally she'll humour me by chasing her tail.


^ Notice recently acquired vintage couch.

^ My teeny tiny snowman.

Yesterday I saw snow for the first time. When I was a kid I was taken to a place called Barrington Tops not far from our house to see snow, but the 'snow' there was this sludgy brown mucky stuff, not much good for snowman making or snowball throwing and so I wrote it off and decided I really had to see real snow. So, yesterday C and his parents and I took a drive to a little country town to go to a supposedly 'rockabilly' themed fair, however standing at the gates it looked no good, so we sat in a park, ate our lunch and then went for a drive up into some beautiful Tasmanian mountains. It was amazing driving through the most majestic scenery I have ever seen and knowing this is where I now live. Those mountains are an hour from my home. Sadly I didn't get many photo opportunities as we were mostly in a vehicle, but C did take some funny photos of me playing with snow for the first time. When I say snow, it was really little patches of snow off the sides of the road out of the sun, but it was fluffy and white and I made a tiny snowman and was excellent fun to play with. I threw many snowballs at C's dad and my hands throbbed with pain from the icyness.


^ Snow feet.


^ Touching snow for the first time.


^ Slippery! And complaining about my hands swelling up due to touching too much snow.


^ Trying to hit C's dad with a snowball and him hurling one back.


^ This was the view from the mountain we were standing on. A beautiful natural alpine lake.


^ Skipping off after playing with snow.

Snow is my new favourite thing ever! I can't wait until next Winter!

^ Yesterday's feet.

I find it really hard to discipline myself into completing something every single day, but I've been writing down 3 good things, filling in my Keel's diary and reading 5 pages of a Terry Pratchett book before bed every night - I wish I could regiment other parts of my life! Here are some recent good things for their respective days;















I'm only going to post my '3 good things' for a month and then I might post them from time to time. I don't want to get too "this is what I did today". Hope they're not too boring for you! Hope you can find 3 good things every day too (even if you don't write them down).