Get out of your house!

Nick and I were so looking forward to going to bed last night and catching up on some lost sleep, but at 1.30 we were both awake because there was such a lot of noise on the street outside – the usual Saturday night funmakers – and it was stuffy inside. The phone rang five minutes later, and we both thought, oh dear, someone’s died. But it was Teddy phoning from the Police Station, where he works now part-time, to say that we needed to evacuate the house immediately. There was an accident up on Ladder Hill, almost directly above the Manse, where some guy was driving too fast and had to brake suddenly, and drove his Subaru into the mountain. Rescue workers were concerned that there would be a rock fall when they removed the wrecked vehicle, so they got all the houses in the near vicinity evacuated. Nick got the car out the garage, we put the back seats down for the boys, and then had to drive down into town first to turn around. It was an eye-opener to be in town at that late hour on a Saturday night, because there were simply so many people about! The shops were long since closed, but people were just walking around, window shopping, chatting to friends, and being sociable. Of course there was also plenty of drinking going on. Anyway, back up the road past the Manse to Barracks Square, which is a group of houses with a little car park in the middle, where we had been instructed to wait. We left the boys in the car and got out to enjoy the night air. Fortunately we didn’t have to hang around for too long, as we were told at about 2.10 that we could go home again, all clear. I’m thankful for two things though – firstly, that it didn’t happen on Friday night when all the girls were here, and secondly, that it wasn’t raining! There were no injuries in the accident.

Our Sunday has been quite normal then, other than the evacuation part. Nick had his usual services, and I did my usual scrapping while the boys watched their usual DVD. Lunch was a pork stir-fry which the boys plodded through with long teeth, and then we had ice-cream outside. After that we scattered to our own directions again.