Earthquakes

There have been  a few earthquakes over the last week or so. The biggest one was 4.6 on the richter scale. I find them rather scary; probably as we are so close to the sea and tsunamis. We move more in a caravan than in a house too, so that doesn't help.

I remember when we lived in Kawerau, many years ago, that we used to call March earthquake season, because we had swarms of them quite often in March, but I don't know why. I wonder if they still call it that.

We have had another nice day today after it rained last night. Quite warm too. Poor Eddie is really struggling to do the lawns as they aren’t drying out very well and getting longer every day.  

We had Eddie’s second cousin, Barbara and her husband, Richard come to visit us over the past 4 days. They live in Wallaroo in South Australia. Eddie’s sister, Janice, came for lunch on Sunday to catch up with them. On Sunday night,  we went out to dinner at Cobb and Co as it seemed to be the only one open. We had a nice meal, except Eddie and Richard’s steak was a bit tough. Eddie had sticky date pudding, so he was happy about that. I had an apple strudel which was yummy.

I did  3 days in the office while the family was in Hamilton for the funeral. I think it went ok. It was the first time I have done whole days unsupervised. 

Eddie went fishing yesterday down at the wharf. When he caste his line the whole rod broke in half, so he was not a happy chappy. We went into Whakatane this morning and bought him a new one. He is down on the beach now trying it out. With luck there will be fresh fish for tea.