Andy's Blog

I am up in sunny Glasgow today for a meeting with one of our major customers.  Unfortunately the lady who does the flight bookings decided that I needed more time to ‘acclimatise’ so landed me here at 8am for a meeting that won’t start till 1pm.

I think I am starting to get the DT’s from too many shots of Latte’s whilst waiting in a nearby hotel!

This blog isn’t yet a year old and already it’s on its seccond entry regarding earthquake experiences!  At a few minutes to one this morning both me and she-who-must-be-obeyed sat bolt upright in bed as the whole house vibrated, pictures fell off shelves and a DEEP rumbling noise like an underground express train shook us out of sleep.

“what the hell….” both on our lips as the vibrations and noise lasted another 10 seconds, and then silence.  A quick run around the house; kids still in bed and asleep, no truck embedded in the side of the house, no starlight winking back at us instead of artexed ceiling.

Definitely one of the strongest quakes I ever experienced.  Although I had to laugh at all the pics of toppled chimney pots on the BBC news website.  Not because they are funny in themselves, but when compared with pics I’ve seen from the American or Asian continents in similar circumstances – then these do seem a little  ridiculous.