Will Roberts
As a child I always missed out on the crazes. When I got my first shell suit people were into Kickers. I finally got a Gameboy when people had moved on to Playstations. So I’m over the moon to be finally up to date by having my own blog.
The earth moved for me
FROM my house near South Park in Darlington, you can quite easily hear the odd train pulling into Bank Top station.
But this was a big train, a very big train, so it seemed.
Just as I was finishing up with the TV for the night, as I lay half asleep, sprawled on my sofa, my left leg began to vibrate, as if the overnight mail express had taken a diversion under my sitting room.
I'm no stranger to earthquakes, having lived in Taiwan, where the sort of shakes which make plant pots shuffle across desks happen fairly regularly.
Far from at ease with the ground rumbling beneath my feet, my time in South East Asia at least taught me to recognise a big un, from a little terrestrial burp.
But despite this, an earthquake was the last thing which crossed my mind early yesterday morning.
A train, a couch potato's leg twitch, my telephone on super-vibrate, chilli-con-carne induced indigestion. All things which seemed probable rather than an earth quake.
So I planted both feet firmly on the ground, and sure enough, my carpet was purring, as if I was standing upon the bonnet of an idling car.
The trouble with things like this happening at such anti-social hours, is that it's hard to see if anyone else felt it.
I scoured the internet and the TV stations for a couple of minutes before giving up and heading to bed.
Upstairs, my girlfriend, like the majority of the population had slept through it. So I woke her.
5.2 on the Richter scale might not have roused her from her slumber, but me shouting: "We've just had an earthquake!" certainly did.
2:32pm Thursday 28th February 2008
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CommentPosted by: Becky M, Croft on Tees on 9:58pm Fri 11 Apr 08
I too experienced the quake whilst laid out on the sofa. My fiance, brother and I were watching a DVD at the time, engrossed, but I was aware of my leg shaking. Thoughts of a ghostly presence or some strange leg twitch crossed my mind, however the men-folk didn't feel anything so I tried to think nothing of it. I only found out it was an earthquake I'd felt when my Mum called the following day to declare the exciting news (shocked that I didn't know.)
I too experienced the quake whilst laid out on the sofa. My fiance, brother and I were watching a DVD at the time, engrossed, but I was aware of my leg shaking. Thoughts of a ghostly presence or some strange leg twitch crossed my mind, however the men-folk didn't feel anything so I tried to think nothing of it. I only found out it was an earthquake I'd felt when my Mum called the following day to declare the exciting news (shocked that I didn't know.)
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