WWQP Bulletin Board Chat

Sunday evening.

Love to photo of the dogs ! Should be labelled "happiness is..."

Rosey, I hope you enjoyed your day of pampering ! Well deserved I'm sure, and something that some of the rest of us should try to work into our week from time to time !

Laura, so good to know that you are safe. I see that now there is potential flooding to worry about in some areas..

Here's some useless information which may be of interest to some.... 8,000,000 tonnes of rubble have been removed from the city since the Christchurch quake and 500,000 tonnes of silt/sand. It is hoped that65% of residential waste and 85% of commercial waste will be recycled in 5 to 6 years time...

This week we went to an event in the city. A book launch, held in a new bookshop in the suburbs. The original Bk shop is still cordoned off in the CBD. The owners have not been able to remove any of their stock so have had to buy in new for the new shop. They hope to retrieve stock from the old shop when they are allowed back. This might happen this week but they have to have an engineer with them when they go, at a cost of $400 an hour... Sounds to me as if some people are doing quite well out of the earthquake... The book which was being launched was written by the daughter of a friend. It is her fourth novel. She's a talented writer but lives on the smell of an oily rag (do you know that saying ?) in Berlin. It has taken her five years to research and write this book. It's set in Leningrad in the 1940's. All about Shostakovitch and his Leningrad Symphony. (a CD of which comes with the book.) I'm really looking forward to reading it, just need a day to myself, sitting by the fire with the music on in the background. Doesn't that sound like a perfect way to spend a day ?

Today we have been out looking at properties in the district. We have an "interested party" wanting to buy this place. She owns adjoining land and is keen to secure this place. DH thinks we should consider her offer carefully. We are surrounded by Dairy farms and on an unsealed road and that doesn't appeal to everybody. We looked at a lovely place (still rural but closer to our small town) . This needs some thinking about...

Hope the week-end has gone well. Here's to a good week .

Marion.

posted by Marion in NZ. @ 1:46 AM