Notices saying “We have moved to…” don’t call for explanation in Christchurch and this sign omits any explanation too. Only the the neutrally businesslike white letters state the fact with no emotions, functionally emphasizing the new address for the passing customers. It’s enough to look at the reflection in the darkened glass to find out the rest of the story though. After that the word “we” doesn’t only apply to the staff of this business either any more. Finding a new place that is suitable if only temporarily, packing up all our undamaged stuff, the boxes, the friends bringing meals and trailers to help, the unpacking, the banging out knees into unfamiliar corners is something we all went through when “we moved to…” What we left may soon become an abandoned section or an empty parking lot as the place across the road.