Jesus H. Christ.
No sooner had I left off writhing about in pain and an unseemly fashion than I was struck down by the Dreaded Lurgy. A proper Lurgy not the ManLurgy! Thought I'd escaped the lurgy this winter then some swine sneezed at me in the pub.
Several packets of antibiotics later and I'm out of bed again, my face has stopped throbbing and I'm no longer fondly contemplating an early death.
The photo above is not my sofa. It's Sorrento House at Empire Bay, remodelled and complete. Thank yer, Craig.
Got a stack of photos on the other computer of it in the building process, with its cladding off and its chimney stack showing. The other computer seems very far away. You'll have to hold yer breath.
Christchurch
Apart from mass attacks of gastro and nippy nights camped on their front lawns and stuff, the Kiwis of Christchurch got off pretty lightly compared to that Haiti quake which was apparently the same size. But they did have a nasty big after-shock. And I was gonna say something else about their quake but my brain has conked out.
"Devastatingly vicious" aftershock rocks Christchurch (SMH, includes video links)
NZ Herald: Quake articles, photos & links
Shaking Maps (NZ's quake watch site)
The quake on Wiki (includes NZ's quake history)
NZ is roughly the size of Japan or the UK (Britain) including all of Ireland or California plus half of Oregon. Its entire population is about 4,400,000 (Sydney's population is 4,500,000). Christchurch is NZ's seond largest city and has about 380,000 people.
Where the hell is New Zealand anyways? (mappage)
NZ from space (pretty)
Major towns & cities of NZ (Christchurch marked)
Vic floods
Some of those poor bastards who copped it in the Black Saturday bushfires are now under flood. Fucking hell.
New threat after floods: disease (includes video)
Bloody Blogger
The no-click weirdness continues on posts. It seems to lick in after a day or two so either be very quick making comments or make them on older posts like this one. I get a comments alert thingo.
Okay, that's it from me for now. My head is throbbing again and I'm desperate for my dinner.
3 comments:
"with its cladding off and its chimney stack showing"
* blushes and fans self furiously *
Well, I never!
Flush over with, how are you feeling now, Spike darling? Better I hope?
Much better now, thank yer, dear. Feeling quite human again and off in a few mins to enjoy the bright sunshiny day today has turned out to be. (Wild winds and a passing storm yesterday.)
That house is Actually Empire House, Sorrento House was behind it next to the fish and chip shop and was demolished in order to put that ugly 2 story thing up in its place.
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