Versailles planter

very smart indeed

Blimey, Yorkshire - That was quick - I only posted it 3 seconds ago!

I don't hang about Dear,

now the computer is fixed yorkshire is off!!!

its a lovely planter gattina

HaHa sticki very funny.x

im just glad you are back!!! have you got the drinks open yet?

no not until 6, why have you,

no, just thinking about tea.

what, tea or tea,!!!!

Tea not tea

well both actually

now come on me ole love, don't start letting the side down

got to stay awake enough to cook!!!

don't worry about cooking, get a drink

I only posted this because Fran and I were discussing what a Versailles planter was and how many pieces of wood were involved.
While I was doing it, the mirror next to the door started to shake, and so did the desk - no more than you'd feel if a heavy lorry drove down the road outside your house, and I just thought it was the cats having a thunderous game of chase up and down the landing. I have just had a 'phone call to say that it was an earthquake down at Parma, about 70 kilometers away. How exciting! OH didn't feel a thing. Probably find some cracked walls around the garden tomorrow.

good lord, glad you are o.k.hope you don't find to much damage tomorrow,

Daughter just 'phoned to check we and the house are OK. Probably just checking on our life assurance situation.

Lol, let us know tomorrow if everything is o.k.

lovely - we have one like this but red instead - nice tree in it !!

I've just been scanning the Italian evening papers online: it looks as if everyone is just waiting for more, stronger shocks. It's a little worrying, but there is a fault line running right across the Emiglian Appennines. We've felt quakes before, but the locals knew what they were doing when this place was built - all the houses in the village are built on what is a large plate of rock which comes to the surface in these parts, and although it may slide, in theory, it shouldn't crack. OH usually sleeps through these tremblings, so you can tell how serious there aren't. No casualties so far.

Oh no Gattina - just read this in other comments - hope all is okay !

The whole of Italy is an earthquake zone. Comes with the territory.

keep safe gattina

Gattina ...
This morning I did try to encourage you to be in a safe place
... downstairs watching the tennis ...
... but would you listen ..???

Tennis was long over by the time we got the wibbles, Terra. Indeed, if I HAD been downstairs instead of chatting online, I doubt I would have noticed anything. It's usually the bedhead or pictures or the mirror rattling against the wall that gives the game away. (and don't any of you DARE read a double entendre into that!)
I can't believe it was felt from Genoa up as far as Venice. Apparently people driving on the A1 which runs from Milan, almost past our door and down to Rome, felt the tremor, stopped in the middle of the road and started to 'phone the emergency services. Not sure why. Just had a 'phone call from a friend, checking that we're ok and telling us that our little local town felt it more strongly than anywhere else round here. Big fuss about nothing!

Oooh! That sounds scary! We're far from fault lines here - although when out walking I often look at the strata of the exposed mountainsides and wish I could have seen millions of years ago how a mountain tipped onto its side - or got 'bent.' Must have been more of a shake than to rattle pictures on a wall! Hm! Still not sure about your explanation of that! (lol)

Stay safe everyone !