Shake, Rattle & Roll

27/02/2008 by Rob.

Did anyone else experience the earthquake last night??

I was sitting at the PC at 12.55am, about to log off for the night, when my chair started wobbling. Cursing that extra potato at lunch, I looked to my left, only to see my La-Z-Boy rocking back and forth!

Was it a poltergeist? Had one of Paul’s fiendish monstrosities come to life behind me, and was even now pounding across the floor? I looked over my shoulder to see…..nothing. 

Then everything stopped as quickly as it had started. Was it an hallucination? A waking dream? Or was it…something else?

Just then, Paul came in from next door, where he had been tossed around in bed. All his bookshelves had been shaken.

‘Was that an earthquake, do you think?’ he queried.

‘Probably,’ I replied. ‘It’ll be on the news tomorrow.’

And it was. Epicentre in Lincolnshire….effects felt all the way down to Brighton.

I’d been lying on a couch in my parent’s house when the last one hit 25 years ago. The couch was shaking as though the cat had caught its claw in the fabric and was trying desparately to free itself.

Aware of the San Andreas Fault in California, at the time I put the quake down to the San Denham Fart…could it be the same again? And why was Paul in Lincolnshire in the first place…..?

The plop thickens……

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