And there's been some big changes in the city and my life. The city is being picked apart building by building. It's a patchwork quilt of barren pieces of central city land with some buildings thrown here and there.
And I own my own house. Say what?! Yip. I've taken the plunge and I now own a little 102 year old beauty right opposite the city's slightly damaged and currently out of order main sports stadium.
Hopefully I'll be in at the end of the month or beginning of next month... I should be painting the interior next weekend!! Pics to follow of course.
It's come to my attention, not only that I've been very neglectful of this blog since the 22 February earthquake in 2011, but the blog itself has turned, somewhat, into an earthquake blog... Well for the handful of the posts I've done since maybe the beginning 2011.
So let's turn a leaf and I'll try not to post so much on the earthquake stuff. But first... A little comparison photo of a central city intersection. And a short earthquake spiel.
We've literally lost BLOCKS of buildings. I don't think the people of Christchurch are aware of how much we've actually lost; and I'm certain that the people of my own country have no idea what it's like to a) experience earthquakes like what we have had to deal with over the last year and a half and b) how incredibly bad it actually is.
Hell I'm not even aware of how bad it is in the central city. Add to that the numerous suburbs that are devastated and will soon be cleared of all houses and probably won't be built on again or will have multi million dollar engineered ground work done to try and make the land safe to build on again.
Anyway enough of that. Next blog will be a bitch about the Crusaders loss to the Rebels last night. I'm far from being a happy camper.
