The Wednesday with a cyclone and an earthquake

 Hi,

What a day. Terrible still in parts of the northern motu - deaths too. This is going to take a lot of recovery effort stretching on for months, I am sure.

We got a bit of sunshine through the day though after the morning rain. But we also ended with a fair bit of constant rain through the night overnight last night.

I did take my bandage off my arm late yesterday. It looks good. Mike snipped the stitch showing so it didn't snag on anything.

I had my first proper shower with gladwrap on my arm. Happy to get my foot clean too for the first time in almost 2 weeks.

Mole excision looks good

Earthquake at 7.38pm

I was exchanging pings with Karen when we had a big quake last night. Decent shake. I was on my bed downstairs and Mike was upstairs with the cats. It started fairly big - then stopped for a second or so before kicking in for a bit harder and longer. But I was contemplating getting to cover when it stopped. The cats scattered in panic.

But - off to bed and read my book. Which scared me (cannibals on an alien planet!). So I was awake for a while.

Anyway. Birthday for me tomorrow. Woot! And I get all my stitches out. Looking forward to that. Going out for tea tomorrow. And got a Black Sticks game on Saturday. Catch up with Sarah, Hamish and Ryan after that. And Shakespeare in the Dell (The Tempest) on Sunday.

Sweet. Awesome birthday weekend.

Love,

Angela