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One of the first useful things I did after the 22 February earthquake in Christchurch was to fill the bathtub with water. The idea was to have water to flush the toilet; it was hard to imagine other use given that the water looked terra-cotta color and had a lot of sediments. We got back water and sewage services pretty much the same day, but the bathtub stayed full of dirty water for a week (one of those ‘just in case’ things).

Since the earthquake we have had restrictions on watering gardens and the vegetables in the planter started looking pretty sad, losing their turgor. Enter the dirty water from the bathtub, which I have been moving with a bucket and then carefully pouring with a yoghurt tub on each plant of the planter.

I think it is good to have a nice, small—and totally unrelated—project to keep my mind focused in something positive. Watering, weeding, spraying pyrethrum going back to ‘normal’ one step at a time.