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Pat_B
Coming from a background of the Scottish Cairngorms, it took me a few hours after Ell pointed out the news of the earthquake for reality to strike. It wasn't just the bed that moved.
"The whole house moved," I explained excitedly. She looked puzzled and then walked around the downstairs rooms looking at the walls.
"I don't think so," she said. "Usually the paintings move."
"Usually?"
"There's normally an earthquake every 5 weeks in this area. Remember the coffee table that used to end up in the middle of the room, and you insisted it was because the house was crooked? You were right about the house being crooked, but it took an earthquake to start the table in the first place."
I give in! I wouldn't have blamed earthquakes for moving beds either - I would have blamed poltergeists.
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johnmacnab
on March 1, 2010 at 6:14 AM
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Azur
If I'd watched the game I wouldn't have felt or heard anything over Ell's shouting. A friend we have, who was rescued from the tsunami in the Philippines a few years ago, has moved to Panama and bought a house on the beach. We phoned him when we heard of the Chile earthquake but he seemed unconcerned.
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johnmacnab
on March 1, 2010 at 5:35 AM
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We had a ghost in the upstairs north bedroom for a time.
It used to move the bed, often when nobody was home. Apparently it had been a decorator and didn't like the arrangement of our furniture.
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Pat_B
on March 1, 2010 at 4:41 AM
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So the earth did move for you....
How funny, if you watched the game you may not have felt it. Well I wasn't in an earthquake but there was a tsunami. The sea rose by 20 cm but I was sensible and stayed away.
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Azur
on February 28, 2010 at 10:15 PM
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