We had to have George put to sleep today 🙁 It was a bit of a shock. He was fine a few days ago, but yesterday he was looking a bit sore, and didn’t eat anything all day. So this morning we took him in to the vet, who said his bladder was very full,…
If you looked at my list of books read so far this year, you’d think I’d abandoned the idea of paper completely. Eight e-books, two audiobooks, and only two traditional print books. The situation is not quite as dire as all that though – part of the reason for the scarcity of real books is…
The aftershocks continue: The red lines on the seismograph are where they’ve cropped the trace so that it doesn’t totally obscure the rest of the graph. Most of them are 3s, which we don’t really feel over this side of town (the epicentres are in the east of the city or just off the coast),…
Back at work today, and I was expecting a big clean-up operation after the 23 December wobbles. But thankfully, there wasn’t too much of a mess. All my filing cabinet drawers were open, but because of our new policy of all furniture having to be bolted to either a wall or the floor, they didn’t…
It seems the earth wants to remind us that just because it’s a new year, that doesn’t mean the end of the aftershocks. We were rudely awakened twice during the night by big ones, a 5.1 at about half past one, and then a 5.5 at quarter to six. Followed, of course, by a string…