After a few days of after shocks
We are all tired, we have had 30 people over, in steams in the last two days. I realise now how important it is to have clean water and power, easy to forget. Collecting water, having showers, tea and conversations. It is quite hard getting sleep when the house moves every so often. We are back to the one room mode, funny, much to every ones amusement I get to be under the big wooden beam, we haven't decided if that is a good idea or not, so we are all moving to the outer walls, were the house is single story. So keeping up the "normal behavior", cutting grass, collecting eggs and cleaning up slowly. Strange the audio book I am listening to is "lucifers Hammer", a disaster novel, about a comet strike in 1970's California, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. We have some very homeless people turning up to use the cottage. I had an email from Batches and Holiday homes, the company that used to advertise our holiday home in Hanmer, to renew our booking fees. So