What a wild week we had in the shaky isles last week! Thankfully we’ve been okay in our home in the hills of Wellington, New Zealand, clear of any tsunami risk. However, so many people around the country, particularly in the north east of the South Island, have suffered with earthquake damage, homes destroyed, and […]
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Prose for Thought | In Transition – Preparing for an international move (whilst the ground shakes beneath us!)
It’s pretty crazy in beautiful New Zealand right now. We’ve had some big wobbles in the shaky isles, which have been rather unnerving – but that goes with the territory here! This map, from GeoNet, shows all the quakes from Friday 21 July up until earlier today (Tuesday)… Pretty crazy amount of activity. We live […]
Welly Walks the Walk for Christchurch!
We did it! My wonderful friend Meghan, of MNM’s blog, organized a group of around 70 people and we all gathered, in the rain, to walk 10 km around Wellington’s waterfront to raise money for the Red Cross earthquake appeal for Christchurch. Over $2,000 was raised (and if you’d like to donate please click here… […]
Two minutes silence for Christchurch today
On this first day of Autumn in New Zealand the nation stopped in silence, exactly one week after the dreadful earthquake shattered Christchurch. I was feeding Alice at the time, and flicked on the news to watch the scenes from around the country. We are all very much in shock, but everyone is doing so […]
Into the School Groove
Term time routines are all go here. The girls even have a dedicated calendar in the kitchen reminding us when their school library days are, what days they need to have trainers for cross country running, when guitar lesson day is for Charlotte and piano lesson day for Sophie (both new hobbies this term for […]
Answering ‘What if?’
I knew when we first came to New Zealand that the land was geologically and historically young. The folds of the hills looked to me like the wrinkles of a new born child. As a geographer I knew all too well the physically volatile nature of New Zealand’s land. But the danger always felt distant. […]
In total shock
Our prayers go out to all those that have lost a loved one in today’s devastating earthquake in Christchurch. So many people are fighting for their lives tonight – with thousands more fighting to free them. As I lay with my children, reading and talking tonight, my thoughts were very much with the people of […]
Shaken Awake
From GeoNet The blogosphere in New Zealand is full of news on the large earthquake which struck Christchurch in the early hours of this morning. ‘On the garden wall‘ blog from Christchurch reports that they were woken awake and have been feeling aftershocks for most of the day. Also from the South Island, ‘The Far […]
The Earth Rocks in New Zealand
Living in New Zealand there is always a feeling of being literally close to nature. This morning I watched powerful waves rolling out onto Lyall Bay Beach; this evening, I felt the whole house shake in a major after shock of a 6.8 earthquake more powerful than the 1987 Edgecumbe earthquake. It was centred 50 […]
Protecting Our House From An Earthquake
For the second time in the past fortnight Charlotte has ridden around the house on her bike, with kite string unraveling behind her, and fully ‘wrapped’ the house in a ‘trip-wire’. She tells me it’s to, ‘Protect our house in case of an earthquake’. Today she insisted we practice an earthquake drill, which consisted of […]
