6.4 magnitude quake hits Baluchistan

I am pretty sure all my family and friends are alright; none of them were in the area as far as I know and I’d surely have heard by now if something had happened.

Poor Pakistan; this is the last thing the country needs right now.

Productive day again today: bought tomato plants; tortured hot neighbour (yet made an idiot of myself); tidied house; baked cookies; mopped floors; completed esoteric & occult non-fiction section on Library Thing; observed Sea Eagle juvenile, babies (via sound) and large nest; made heaps of bird food and fed heaps of animals; wrote a bit; stressed ( Read more... )

What horrible news to wake up to: an email from my brother & sister in law, telling us there has been another attack. (I don’t have the TV on yet, don’t need that in the morning, but now I am forced to watch.) All of my family in Islamabad is safe and well, thank all the gods. Yet again, the house sustained damage, although not as bad as it did in ( Read more... )

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