This is the church next to the Central Fire Station on Kilmore St. Our ancestors, John Webb Bastion and Charlotte Sheppard Bastion, that came to Christchurch in 1864 used to go to church here... They are trying to prop it up so it can be repaired...
This is part of my driveway. While it looks like one part of the driveway is made of tiles, it is not. That is pressed pattern in solid concrete. It got *wrenched*.
This picture facinates me because I thought this crack was nothing. I also thought the other cracks in the chimney firewall were nothing major. However they keep getting bigger and crackier and now the center of the chimney firewall bulges out a bit. Apparently this is a Bad Sign. I suppose I should have guessed this by myself. Brick walls shouldn't seperate in the middle...
This lovely picture of total squallor is *under my house*. I took this picture so you can see what the concrete piles look like. The solid wall on the left is basically just a thin plaster "wall" which we call "the foundations of the house" but really it is like that pretty decorative paper you wrap around a birthday cake - all good-looks and nothing structural. Our house sits on little concrete nubs! One really good shake and I bet we could just be bumped off them! (not according to the structual engineer but what does she know??? they are SMALL!) And the REFUSE is there from when the house was built. I guess the builders thought no one would ever go under there and see the debris they left behind. Wrong!
This is the church next to the Central Fire Station on Kilmore St. Our ancestors, John Webb Bastion and Charlotte Sheppard Bastion, that came to Christchurch in 1864 used to go to church here... They are trying to prop it up so it can be repaired... 
This is part of my driveway. While it looks like one part of the driveway is made of tiles, it is not. That is pressed pattern in solid concrete. It got *wrenched*.
This picture facinates me because I thought this crack was nothing. I also thought the other cracks in the chimney firewall were nothing major. However they keep getting bigger and crackier and now the center of the chimney firewall bulges out a bit. Apparently this is a Bad Sign. I suppose I should have guessed this by myself. Brick walls shouldn't seperate in the middle...
This lovely picture of total squallor is *under my house*. I took this picture so you can see what the concrete piles look like. The solid wall on the left is basically just a thin plaster "wall" which we call "the foundations of the house" but really it is like that pretty decorative paper you wrap around a birthday cake - all good-looks and nothing structural. Our house sits on little concrete nubs! One really good shake and I bet we could just be bumped off them! (not according to the structual engineer but what does she know??? they are SMALL!) And the REFUSE is there from when the house was built. I guess the builders thought no one would ever go under there and see the debris they left behind. Wrong!
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Lazy bloody buggers. Little did they know that OCD SUZY would move in...
colt trying to squeeeeeze out an enormous log on my lap. Nice.
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