Kinda reminds me of myself as a teenager

Oh yes. You clearly remember those days as well

Admin said:

Oh yes. You clearly remember those days as well

Oh indeed! I mused a while back that our trip to the UK in 2008 was the first time I had ever bought a return ticket to anywhere!

Ciderman said:

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Oh indeed! I mused a while back that our trip to the UK in 2008 was the first time I had ever bought a return ticket to anywhere!

I have a cousin who sailed to Oz in about 1967 with a one-way ticket as a £10 pom. Don't suppose you ever came across a Brian Ruffle in your youthful travelling days? No one in the UK has ever heard from him since the day he sailed

One of my tasks at the museum is collating the births, deaths & marriages so they can be search on computer. In the course of this I have come across some fascinating stories about turn of the 19th century. Men who skipped England, leaving a wife and kids to ship out to either Oz or NZ. One married again (bigamously) and one of his first set of kids hunted him down and created no end of fuss. It's a difficult and incomplete job because the 1931 earthquake in Hawkes Bay demolished Napier , where most of the records were kept, and decimated by the fires that followed.

Ciderman said:

One of my tasks at the museum is collating the births, deaths & marriages so they can be search on computer. In the course of this I have come across some fascinating stories about turn of the 19th century. Men who skipped England, leaving a wife and kids to ship out to either Oz or NZ. One married again (bigamously) and one of his first set of kids hunted him down and created no end of fuss. It's a difficult and incomplete job because the 1931 earthquake in Hawkes Bay demolished Napier , where most of the records were kept, and decimated by the fires that followed.

I Googled “1931 earthquake in Hawkes Bay” and you can find some amazing photo's on the web.

We don't realise how lucky we are in the UK. We do get earthquakes but they are very small. A few years ago I remember feeling an earthquake and in the morning I asked my husband if he had felt it. He just laughed at me until he heard the news and they confirmed that there had in fact been a small earthquake during the night.

It's a bit like living on a jelly! Have a look here and see how many we get.

http://www.geonet.org.nz/earth…..uakes.html

And Auckland, where I went to school sits around 50 volcanic cones the most recent (and biggest- Rangitoto Island) erupted about 600 years ago. A fraction of a second in geologic terms. If you google earth Rangitoto you can see where I slept – by the crater!

I know New Zealand has volcanos and earthquakes but I never knew you had so many. Thirty earthquakes in the last 40 days, gosh! We hear about California all the time but they never mention New Zealand when it comes to earthquakes. Is that because there are less people per capita? If you were to move to New Zealand you would need a history lesson first so you didn't buy a property in a danger zone.