No it wasn't me this time either ( Read more... )

So, if I wrote all the stuff going through my head at the moment, I'd be here all year. Suffice to say I'm here, I'm still alive, I just spent a week on holiday in Wanaka and am not sure if I actually enjoyed it, and I'm still spending a lot of time figuring out what's wrong with me and how to fix it. But anyway, am going to do a list of New Year's ( Read more... )

Recipe for a bad day ( Read more... )

. . . except when that company is two small cats who really way a hundred tonnes each and insist on sleeping ON YOUR HEAD ( Read more... )

Half marathon walks completed - ONE (that's 21.2 km, or 13 miles for those playing along at home ( Read more... )

(And when I say biscuits, I mean cookies, not bread rolls. You americans are weird ( Read more... )

On a non-earthquake tangent ( Read more... )

Oh lordy, that's a strong aftershock - I'm feeling it in Dunedin and it made the lampshades swing slightly. Be way worse in Christchurch if that's where's it's centered again ( Read more... )

Edit to add: Poor Christchurch just keeps on getting thumped - they tried to turn the power back on in the central city. Unfortunately a gas main had broken and a spark set the building on fire - and there was no water pressure. (They're showing live pictures ( Read more... )

When there's an earthquake, the majority of people have a similar reaction - they check on the safety and welfare of the people they live with, they attempt to check on the safety and welfare of loved ones they don't live with, they examine their homes and immediate surrounds for damage and whether they can stay there, they begin to gather the ( Read more... )