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Brick library, Kermadec Trench and conversing with children

Yesterday I took the kids to the Parnell public library. It is in a very grand, old brick building:

 
I would never enter a building such as this in Christchurch and indeed I doubt it would withstand a Mag. 6 or greater earthquake but I know that the chances of that happening here are very remote.  Auckland is further from the plate boundary than Christchurch. The plate boundary in the south island is manifested in the Alpine fault which at its closest point, is just 200km from Christchurch. It crosses the country diagonally, going straight through Wellington and eventually becomes the Kermadec Trench which is over 500km east of Auckland. This is far enough away for me to feel at ease. There was a Mag. 7.6 in the area just over a week ago and I didn’t feel a thing which is very reassuring.
I don’t really want to be here right now but I don’t want to be there either. I wonder if this is similar to what a refugee must feel. Only worse for a refugee of course. I want to be nowhere, wherever that is. I am missing Ben so much. Daniel has become a good talker now and Elizabeth is not far behind, but neither of them has an opinion on Labour’s new tax package or Rupert Murdoch’s woes or Heidi Wither’s future mother-in-law.

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3 responses to “Brick library, Kermadec Trench and conversing with children”

  1. MikeM Avatar
    MikeM

    I don't have an opinion on Heidi's withers either. Do you?

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  2. Rachel Avatar
    Rachel

    I'm very glad to hear it. Heidi's withers are none of your business.

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    MikeM

    According to The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/19/sarah_hunter_competition/), Sarah Hunter, Google's top lobbying person and Head of UK Public Policy, has said at a public event that the internet is "like the Gaia Theory. A butterfly flaps its wings and a tsunami happens in another part of the world."If this is so, it stands to reason that "the theory of plate tectonics has been falsified. Earthquakes (and hence tsunamis) are caused by Lepidoptera (presumably, very large ones)."

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