Last night I did a kinda dumb thing. I was sat at my computer catching up on the admin for my day job, and I felt the house move. It wasn’t a super dramatic shaking or anything of that nature, it was more like when someone slams a door and you feel the air in the house move.
I thought someone was in the house.
My partner and child were asleep in the house.
I got stroppy and stormed off downstairs to find the miscreant who had decided to violate my home, ready to deal out the fists of justice. The adrenalin was pumping and I was slamming lights on and trying to seek out the intruder.
Lord knows what would have happened if there really had been someone in the house. At 20 something I would probably done okay, but I am 30 something now and would probably got into all sorts of trouble! Fists of Justice…. more like oven gloves of pain..
Turns out that my ‘intruder’ was the largest earthquake experienced in the UK for the last 25 years.
Judging by the news reports this morning, my little Welsh village got off lightly with a bit of movement, that if I had the good sense to be asleep when it happened I probably wouldn’t have noticed. There are reports of significant building damage and the odd injury, although (thankfully) at this time there does not appear to be any deaths.
So the moral of this story? Not sure there is one - just that I am a total wally who is certainly not brave, just a little bit silly and feel a whole lot sillier.
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