another earthquake. 8.04pm we're all sitting on the floor and there's a boom. Because we have great big windows we all looked at those first thinking it was a huge gust of wind - then the house shuddered. We've obviously integrated into California now though, because we immediately leapt to the computer to check out the seismic scale! It was a 5.6 - moderate apparently the scale goes up to 7 - that does not translate to moderate in my book, but who am I to argue. Anyway nothing fell off shelves, the chimney didn't crumble (thankfully as I was sitting under it) and the tea lights in the pumpkins perched on the deck rail were still lit - so no harm done. Little boy got a little freaked out though and twinkle of course milked the event for every last ounce of drama - forcing us to practice our duck and cover technique.
Oh how we laughed when our friends started phoning to see if our house on the cliff was still here. Personally I think they were all planning to loot our substantial earthquake kit. (they laugh at us now you know, but come the big one, I know I'm gonna need to turn that gun on our neighbours to protect the corn beef).
Despite my blase attitude I'll now spend the whole night listening for a tsunami.
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