Posts by Isabel Hitchings
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I'm having a very twelve-year-old reaction to "sausage shop". Either that or I'm being utterly naive in assuming you actually are talking about a purveyor of processed meat products.
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looking more closely at what was empty and what was not it would appear that you must be out of cheap champagne
Our local Countdown is short on chips, fizzy-drink, flour and bog-roll.
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Hope you guys all have a fabulous time. Any shaking I feel tonight will be blamed on Russell's disco dancing ;-)
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NZ blood service seems to be remarkably over cautious about who they allow to donate blood. I recently discovered they have a blanket that they have a blanket restriction on breastfeeding mothers which makes perfect sense in the weeks post-partum but is a bit of a nonsense when they are turning away healthy women who are nursing a toddler once or twice a day.
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So glad to hear you sounding undaunted. Enjoy that chainsaw (in sensible moderation of course).
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Oh no, Joe! Best wishes to you and yours.
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What I'm finding interesting (for want of a better word) is how thin the veneer of "coping" is and how unpredictable the results when it slips. Yesterday I momentarily lost sight of a child whist shopping (a pretty common occurrence) and I panicked and, once I had reassembled my brood, spent the next twenty minutes holding their arms in a death grip whilst I ranted loudly about the dangers facing children who stray. Then I calmed down and realised the thing wasn't really the thing.
Like Emma I am in no way ready for schools to be back but I really would lie a definite timetable for things getting back to normal. Something predictable I could plan around.
I've thought about taking the kids and escaping to family in Nelson for a bit but we'd have to find a way of caring for our diabetic cat which would likely mean my partner staying behind and I can't face that.
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Emma's partner tweeted that they are fine - daughter slept through.
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Last night's aftershocks were the first since the main event to really rattle me and even then I was rather more pissed off than scared.
I think this bit between the peak of the crisis and things being properly back to normal is particularly hard - lots of drifting and not a lot concrete to do besides boiling the damn water. Both my partner's work and kid's school are in the CBD and, while both buildings are reportedly OK, access may be a problem for quite a while longer so "real life" seems a long way away.
The kids don't appear overly frightened by the shaking (probably because we haven't lost much and their grown-ups aren't too freaked) but they are grumpy at the inconvenience of it all and, because I'm tired and stressed, I'm micromanaging their behaviour in what I'm sure is a really irritating fashion. This morning's project is to find a park so they can have a run and a scream.
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I think that 100k figure probably isn't actually far off. At a rough estimate 1/3 of properties I've walked or driven past have some sort of visible damage albeit often minor and that's not counting damage that isn't visible from the road. In my neighbourhood there are very few houses that don't have a tarp on the roof.