Thursday, February 28, 2008

An Earthquake in London!

Evidently we had an earthquake in the UK measuring around 4.5. We did feel it at the LMC. Ed and I had a visitor in our flat watching a documentary on TV and we were having a heated discussion about it which meant the discussion lasted until 12:30 in the morning. So we didn't get to bed until 1am. Soon after we hit our pillows, we heard something either hit the floor or move around. We didn't know what to make of it but we didn't think it was enough of a deal to get up and investigate. Then the next day a few others in the house said that their beds were shaking and had read that we had an earthquake. Well that's a first for us.

The pictures: Matt and Emily are a couple that have been attending our church for a number of months now. They are both working on their PhD's. Emily uses our library frequently. She presented the sermon last week and Matt gives one in a couple of weeks. Matt's dad is British and his mom is American. He lived his early life in England then his teen years and onwards in the states. Emily is from the states. They are a real assets to our church and great fun to be with. They've been in Africa for studies and want to go back to Africa to do more for her research.

Dutch Blitz time! I (Phyllis) got beaten so soundly the last time I played that I sat out this round.

2 comments:

flute4peace said...

Oh *squeal* I LOVE Dutch Blitz!!!!

And an earthquake - how frightening!!! Glad you weren't closer to it.

MB said...

I wondered about you guys when they said the quake was in Manchester, England. I guess it's a trade off. You get earthquakes but no tornados?