we're okay

Some of you may be concerned. If any New Zealand news actually reaches the rest of the world then most of you would have heard about:

THE BIGGEST EARTHQUAKE TO HIT AUCKLAND IN 30 YEARS!

Yes, that's right. 4.5 on the richter scale and only 30km away from where we live, thundering in just last Wednesday.

Shock? Horror? Devastation?

No. We didn't feel a thing. Not a rumble, shimmy or tremor. Granted, we were watching Lost, which is particularly engrossing but the first we heard of it was when we received a text "JESUS, IS UR HOUSE STILL STANDING? WE FELT THAT ALL THE WAY OVER HERE."

"She's texted the wrong person, the silly bint", I said flippantly. But I was wrong, it was described by various people "like a truck hitting the building", some said "like somebody grabbing the back of my chair and banging it against the wall for 10 seconds"

Read all the comments from the Herald here

Notice most non-aucklanders are saying "toughen up, that was nothing. Until there's a 40ft chasm in your bedroom and you can see the night sky from your sofa, you haven't lived.