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Monday, November 14, 2016

Memorandum Monday after the shocks

A big wave to you all and lots of good thought waves to all my New Zealand friends - I was relieved to learn that the levels of destruction and causalities was much less with this earthquake even though both were bigger than the one that devastated Christchurch in 2011.  When I lived in Wellington - the city most expected to have a big shake - I had water and food supplies in case of a quake and we had supplies at work and I knew about all the emergency help stations near work and home.  But in the 5 years I lived there I never experienced a shake that went on for over a minute and made the cupboard doors open and moved the pictures on the wall - but yesterday all those things happened in Wellington several times.  While horrible for everyone,especially all the aftershocks which will be so unsettling, NZ is prepared and has the infrastructure to cope with natural disaster - when your country is on the Pacific Rim of fire you have to be. 

Back to Scotland and my weekend - lots of 'same old' for this time of year with rugby on the TV, plenty of crochet and then more TV with the big reality shows.

But I did also do something new - a fun set of events at the museum to celebrate the recently opened fashion and design galleries (featured in a snap in July).  There was a fascinating table full of corsetry and undergarments showing the things people have done to change their body shape - including items bought this year.  Lovely to be able to pick them up and feel them - they all felt very uncomfortable. I was fascinated by a woman doing small loom weaving and another making origami jewellery and I enjoyed all of the slogans that people had written on t-shirts but didn't join the queue to get to that table - because I was intent on queuing for another fun stall - all will be revealed on Wednesday!

And, of course I'm not going to leave you without a photo - too cloudy to try for the super moon last night but on the way to the museum I did spot a fabulous new mural on an end wall


Hope you all have a good week - with far fewer big shocks than last week!

7 comments:

Patio Postcards said...

I think living through an earthquake would be be scary but when thoroughly prepared I guess it takes some of the fear down a notch or two. That Pacific ring was/is certainly active these last few weeks; Japan, Argentina & now New Zealand. Mother Nature is upset about something!

I like that wall mural - it rather ties in with the Ring of Fire & hope. Ah t-shirt slogans can sometimes be great words of wisdom, sometimes! Happy week ahead & I look forward to Wednesday's collection.

debs14 said...

There are certainly some dramatic natural events happening this year, it must make you quite nervous to live in an area in a known quake zone.
That mural is beautiful, just the kind of bright thing you need to cheer up a miserable November day!

Sian said...

What a pretty mural: just the lift we could all do with, I think. And something to look forward to, too: I'll be looking out on Wednesday!

Have a good week!

Karen said...

What a charming mural! Keeping NZ in my thoughts this week. I'm sure I'd be quite terrified.

Barbara said...

Too cloudy and foggy here to see the supermoon too. Pretty mural - I guess that is poppies she is holding?

Maggie said...

New Zealand has been in our thoughts too. Lovely mural too.

alexa said...

That's a happy and uplifting sight on a grey day - I saw the BBC had featured some in Glasgow recently and they were amazing too. A very talented lot, north of the border :). We have friends south of Christchurch and were relieved they seem to be Ok. But it is not so for everyone, alas ...