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House Shifts and Other Sucky Stuff

Maggie — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:40:38 +0000

Sometimes I have the strongest feeling someone upstairs is laughing at me. They’re hanging about, devising crisis after crisis to throw at me, just for kicks. Then they watch me doing my headless chicken routine. Their latest idea: let’s make her shift house with only a week’s notice. What, she’s coping? Hmm. Let’s throw in...

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Another Year Bites The Dust

Maggie — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:09:05 +0000

Down here in Christchurch, New Zealand (aka QuakeZone), 2011 has been unforgettable – and not in a good way. Admittedly, that first big quake – the one that set off all the others – was in 2010. But this year we’ve had literally thousands of aftershocks (some, incredibly, more violent than the original earthquake). We’ve...

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Let It Snow!

Maggie — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:20:40 +0000

Snow, glorious snow! The weatherman got it right, for once! We woke to that unmistakable Snow Silence and raced each other to the window because, although Christchurch gets chilly in winter, we don’t often get snow settling. There it was. The largest snowfall Christchurch has experienced in 15 years. Beautiful. But deadly cold for those...

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Silver Linings?

Maggie — Thu, 19 May 2011 05:31:44 +0000

We’ve just had a swanky new logburner installed to replace the chimney/logburner we lost in the Quake/s. We’re now well and truly into the winter season, and after being without heating for so long it’s an amazing feeling to finally be warm in the evenings again. Hallelujah! And double-Hallelujah, because my hairdresser, who went AWOL...

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Remember Me?

Maggie — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:12:28 +0000

Hi! Yep, I’m still here. I’ve been off-line a while – a loooong while – three months, in fact – and yes, I do have the odd excuse (including, on 22nd February, another horrific earthquake, so destructive it pretty much flattened what remained of our already-shaken inner city). Still, I’m sorry I haven’t been more...

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