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[mrph]

Bah. I seem to have run out of storm. I was enjoying that.

On the plus side, the bathroom now has a bath again (albeit with a big "Do not touch!" sign on it), the courier got here and collected the picture for Harrods, BT have upgraded my broadband, the bathroom door's been replaced with one that opens the other way and stuff is generally going well.

The gardeners didn't turn up, but that's not entirely unexpected. And you can't have everything, can you?

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[(Anonymous)]

I usually enjoy storms... but while I wouldn't say I was scared of this one, I was at least a little apprehensive. Thunder which causes the house to shake (and all the kitchen spice racks to rattle on the wall) is a bit disconcerting.

To be fair, I wasn't apprehensive about the storm per se, more about the idea of my house falling down :)

(It didn't.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

That was me, having been mysteriously logged out.

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

How old is your house ???

Mine is pre 1840 (earliest map that i've found to exist for the area in detail) and as such i'm fairly certain if it hasn't fallen down by now, not much is going to cause it to happen.

We have frieght trains at a fair distance that shake it, busses speeding along outside (lorries seem less so, hence i belive speed is the factor) and on saturday a road excavator that did some fun shaking....the house does wobble, particularly on the top floor (the higher you go the more its exacibated), but on the whole i think i prefare some movement to stiff, rigid and cracking !

[venta.livejournal.com]

Firstly, I didn't say it was a rational fear that the house would fall down :)

Our house was built in (I think) the 30s, out of a mysterious substance unknown to modern builders. If you drill a hole in our wall - no matter how carefully - a small trickle of dust runs out the hole. Then a large trickle. Then before you know where you are the whole of the inside of the wall is pouring out of the hole, and the edges are crumbling, and large chunks of plaster are falling out... It's quite scary. You don't put holes in the wall here if you can possibly help it.

I don't object to the house shaking in response to large concussions, I've just never known thunder have that effect before.