Too Edgy to Knit
The T shirt awaits...
Since early Saturday morning the awaited 1940’s T shirt has had no attention. It needs only the neckline ribbing and the sewing of the fabric to be complete and ready to post to London.
In the early hours of Saturday a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck our Southern Hemisphere city, Christchurch, New Zealand. Subsequently we have experienced at least another 120 quakes. The latest, this morning, Wednesday, was 5.1 on the Richter Scale. We are shaken and stirred at this point, feeling somewhat fragile and knowing that there is little we can do but do what we can.
Earthquakes remind us that this moment is the only moment we have and how we live it is evidence of who we are. All the minor things we can do have been done. We had arranged the basic necessities of water, food, torches and battery radio and just needed to get out of the house.
I lived in Istanbul when the devastating 6.9 magnitude earthquake of 1999 killed thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. I learnt to always have shoes ready beside my bed, water and torch to hand. On Saturday, the quake struck at 4.34am, the electricity was out, it was too dark to see. The torch had been flung to who knows where, the water was split on the floor, but luckily my shoes were still beside the bed. I called to my son at the other end of the hall to get some shoes on, grab his clothes and get out!
I did some blind mountaineering to gingerly get out of the bedroom, over the debris and glass of the living room, gathered up the dog and stepped outside to a beautiful and clear starlit sky. We dressed in the cold, dark air, and waited for the ground and our nerves to settle.
As the day woke, the sun shone, and the follow up quakes kept us occupied. Buildings have been damaged, stuff has been broken and lost, neighbours are OK and no one has been killed. We contact friends and family for reassurance. We are a thankful people.
Slowly, as the aftershocks take their toll, we realise that at the moment we are to just keep safe and look after those around us. The city centre is closed as falling buildings make it too dangerous to enter. The people who maintain the city services have been working non-stop to make people as comfortable as possible. Now we have power and water, and we are almost normal.
I say almost – with each subsequent quake we find more damage done. On Saturday the chimney was broken, swaying precariously with each aftershock. Rather than leave it to fall through the roof, with the help of neighbours and friends, we demolished it brick by brick.
The front porch must be frightened as it is trying to leave the house. Cracks appear in the foundations, the walls, the floor dances and the perimeter fence is cracked. We have much broken crockery and glass and strewn food stuff mixed with pickles and preserves gathered up into boxes. We clean up what we can but do not get too anal about it as we know more may follow, so we make things as safe as possible and find something normal to do.
I have had enough of picking up broken stuff so I start to weed the vegetable patch. Having my hands in the soil usually calms me. I plant some coriander seeds and transplant some lettuces. We will need lettuces in a few weeks, so will the neighbours. I move on to complete the t-shirt, counting the stitches as I pick them up around the neckline, but I cannot see the black 2 ply well enough to get them even. I am too edgy to knit. I find myself weeping, not for myself but for the Turkish folk who lost so many family members and so much in 1999. We have lost things – they lost people – and once again my heart goes out to them.
MBW
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