Weekly update

Last week's challenge at SBO was to use an NZ song title. Really not my scene as I think it's very contrived. Anyway, in my sleep-deprived, stressed state I flicked through the Top 100 NZ song titles and a word entered my head. Flicking through my photos I found a photo of the boys in front of Jaws taken the first time we went to the US. perfect, I thought, that fits my song "Shark" perfectly. I cut the mat c/s with a deckle edge scissors to represent the shark's teeth and then just placed it all randomly. I went to upload my l/o and thought I'd better add the artist's name. No, it wasn't "Shark" I saw, but "Whaling"! Argh! I was so upset and lost the plot at that point. Anyway, I went off to the hospital with my Mom and the rest of the family joined us later for lunch. When I came home, I searched the web and found two NZ folk songs with the word "Shark" in them and the title of one was "She'll be Right" - perfect under the circumstances!

Then, last Saturday a 7.1 Magnitude earthquake struck Christchurch at 4.35am in the morning. Apparently it was felt here, but we didn't feel it. Thankfully it wasn't 12 hours earlier or the loss of life and injuries would have been huge with all the glass that shattered. Since then, there have been over 400 aftershocks causing many people to really stress about them.

On 16th October, two South Island scrapbook shops are having charity crops for the Earthquake Fund and I'm also organising one here!

Finally my Dad goes back to the specialist on Wednesday and I really think he will be put into hospital and his foot will be amputated. I have been very worried because we go off on holiday in 12 days and then there is no one here to take care of my parents. Today I nearly cried with relief - friends of my parents who live in Chch left for a few weeks as the quakes were really stressing them out and they have said they will come and live in our house and look after my parents for us! We are also going to look at Malvina Major retirement village on Wednesday as my Mom will not be able to cope by herself. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers