Posts by Hebe
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Islander,
Tying the flue is a good idea. We have one tie in the roof space, and I'm thinking about adding another lower down inside the room to hold the burner itself steady. After some reluctance, I like this modern burner. It's super-efficient on wood use and warms our house wonderfully.
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Hard News: A long way yet, in reply to Islander,
Islander, have you heard any more about a Sept 4 marking? are you still coming for the Ngai Tahu gathering?
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Hard News: A long way yet, in reply to Islander,
Sounds like a riverside toilet in Christchurch; should be right at home.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Just thinking,
Another rabbithole for those people. Shame about yr parquet though; a luxury problem is still real. The threatening chimney is a pain: we only had to put up with four months of running out of the 4.5 metre square living room when a shake hit so if the very dodgy chimney fell down no-one was squashed (it buggered up many a tv programme). When it was demolished the top two-thirds was one solid lump of mortar and bricks dealt to with power tools. The bricks in the bottom third were picked off by hand while the mortar crumbled to dust. Scary, curved chimneys are never good.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Just thinking,
Her house is also a write off, but the land is deemed Not Applicable, so they are not paid out as the Redzoners can be.
That sounds hellish. What is not applicable?
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Hard News: A long way yet, in reply to Lilith __,
I would just love to wake up one morning and find it was all a bad dream. Or some secret conspiracy to mess with our minds*. :-)
Natural forces or a massive mindgame: think I'll go with natural forces. But I have read that Northland has no earthquakes, and I love it up there...
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Hard News: A long way yet, in reply to Lilith __,
Me too! Do you think we'll have to wait long? Perhaps someone can let us know when Chch comes right again! :-/
We need a mega-reality show: Make Me a City In a Week, or something.
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I just had a memory blank spot and Google mapped "the old Budget Rental cars site in St Asaph Street" (referred to in the Press piece I posted above). So I could find the Dance-O-Mat. Google is still showing the city as was -- St Asaph on a sunny Sunday morning. I cried. It's still a shock to directly compare the place: I go down there every day, have lived here large chunks of my life, and the old pictures look "righter" than the reality. I must be waiting, in my subconscious, for it all to return to "normal".
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Hard News: A long way yet, in reply to Chris Waugh,
"Gerry Brownlee would love this!" Monumental, domineering, inhumane, barren, and, apart from certain very rare occasions, the only locals there work there
Heh.
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Hard News: A long way yet, in reply to Lilith __,
Bugger. I will keep an ear open.