Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Beautifully dangerous world . . .

Thanks to Gulf Times for this picture of Mount Merapi’s lava trails.

Indonesia raised the alert status of Mount Merapi volcano to its highest level again after it spewed hot clouds on Wednesday, a day after it lowered the warning.

Merapi in central Java, near the city of Yogyakarta, had been on the highest alert level since mid-May until Tuesday when a volcano monitoring centre said decreasing activity had made it less dangerous.

This is the same Yogyakarta as the place of last month’s Indonesian earthquake. Definitely an interesting place to be right now.

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And we live in a beautiful world . . .

Just in case you haven’t seen the front page of today’s DomPost, here is a satellite view of the South Island on Monday 12 June. Beautifully glorious!

If you’d like a full size copy of this photo, leave a comment and I’ll email it to you.

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97 days

The House is sitting and so I am still at work at 5:43pm.

I have a lot to be thankful for though:

  • 97 days until I leave NZ (I’m not especially thankful for this as I expect to be quite sad on the day)
  • 98 days until I arrive in London (I am quite excited about this bit though)
  • 10 Georgian houses to live in from Sept 19 (apparently I don’t get to live in all 10)
  • 4 days until Rachel’s 21st
  • 11 days until Natalie’s 21st (4+7=11)
  • 2 mins until I go home

Goodnight everyone (yes I know, what a boring post).

 

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