I’m ok, and made it home from work. No damage at home – just a couple of minor breakages again – but the centre of the city is a mess and they reckon there’s been multiple deaths.
Amazingly, we’ve still got power on in our suburb, but the phones are out, and I think we’ll be boiling water again.
This is horrific.
Updates on my current cross-stitch project are going to be pretty boring for a while, I’m afraid, while I work on the border and calendar section:
I’ve been terribly slack at keeping up with writing here lately. I think it’s all part of my general feeling that I can’t keep up with my life. Yes, I know I said I was going to try and ease off on things, but sometimes that’s just not possible – I’ve got a sociolinguistics assignment…
Ming’s health has been getting steadily worse. About a year ago he had a seizure. Since then, he’s had four or five more that we’ve seen. They haven’t seemed to be distressing him, though, so we decided to spare him the stress of a visit to the vet, and just monitor the situation. The next…
Yesterday was Christchurch’s 150th birthday, celebrating the anniversary of the day when it was declared to be a city (it was only a tiny village at the time, but Queen Victoria wanted to appoint someone bishop, and to have a bishop you need a cathedral, and cathedrals can only be built in cities. So she…
It being a Friday night, and neither of us feeling much like cooking dinner, we were lazy tonight and rang for a pizza. When the delivery guy arrived, he took the pizza box out of his thermal bag thingy, went to hand it to me, and then paused with a puzzled look on his face….
Reporting in quickly from London. We’ve been so busy having fun I haven’t found time to write any blog entries, so I’m way behind, but while everyone else is off on the London Eye we’ve retreated to an internet cafe for some much needed on-line time, so I can at least give you a brief…
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Keeping my fingers crossed that you stay safe. It’s been a rough go in the quake category over the last few months for you all. Hopefully it will stop sooner rather than later.
I was so worried!
I’m surprised too at another big one…
Keep us posted.
Oh dear….
glad to know you are ok 🙁
The pictures on New York Times are horrific. I’m glad you’re OK – my best wishes to everybody out there.