Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Lilith __,
Googled It:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=138662648367
My God, the Chinese Scotsman. I had totally forgotten him. Weird.This pic is before my time, but you can just see the Dainty Inn script above the cafe.
http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/heritage/photos/disc16/IMG0070.asp -
Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Lilith __,
You don’t mean Java, Hebe?
No , on the site of East's bookshop. Beloved tells me now it was the Dainty Inn.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Islander,
hydraulic tube cash transfer/receipt systems existed into the v.early 1970s
Lamson tubes. Ballantynes used them. We had them as newspaper subs to send copy to the printers, and they would send bits and pieces back. Some tubes had a open end with a big metal clip in side to hold the papers in place. Certain newspaper hooligans (you know who you are) would put a sausage roll in the Lamson to wind up the printers..
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Islander,
there’s been local ceremonies but – nothing area-wide.
It is – difficult to deal with all matters unless a re-balancing has been achieved.Quite. Re-balancing is the word: to re-store our spirits, re-balance our psyches. I used the word tangi because I think a way of living in Aotearoa has ended, and another is beginning. Maybe many of us , and as a society, will no longer have the sense of being all-powerful and we will start to live with the land rather than on it.
The memorials etc that have been held so far have not touched my heart mostly; they have all been too formal. The exception was the one-year memorial where all through the city we strewed flowers in the rivers and decorated the road cones and streetside sewer tanks.
I would love a labyrinth - grass, gravel or pounamu - somewhere beautiful for walking, pacing, contemplating, singing, or sitting in the sun any time. A good Gap Filler?
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Sacha,
Even the girls are men down here.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Sacha,
<q>Lots of singing, weeping and karakia
Rugby match then </q(Derisive snort) The nearest a real Kiwi bloke and blokess gets to emotion eh? -
Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Islander,
or fishnchips at Fail’s
That was for grown-ups in our house. Never found out why.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Islander,
Hay's: had the most amazing 1960s cafe upstairs that survived until sometime in the early 90s. It was areal piece; I must find out about it.
Islander, Do you remember that cafe in High Street near the Cashel corner? It had orange vinyl and an order system on a wire thing like a flying fox across the roof. I would love to live somewhere with some character left; there's fuck all in this place. I'd much rather have layers of memories in my town than the unquiet ghosts around now.
The town needs a blessing, a release, a lifting of the shroud. Lots of singing, weeping and karakia; a tangi and a celebration?
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Ballantyne's is moving into the private prison business?
Well, there could be plans for the dungeon downstairs to maximise returns, but what I meant is that the justice precinct is ideally placed for a quick trot through the bus exchange to Bally's back door on Lichfield st for a short black, measure up a pinstripe suit with a Rogeresque-flowery shirt and a bash at the Clarins counter, before dashing back for the afternoon sitting.
I was rather hoping that the basement cafe would stay like it has been for a thousand years (I'm sure some of the customers have never been outside), but I bet it changes now. It's been there all my life: trips to Town in the school holidays and lunch downstairs. At uni, my friend and I would get ratted at the Bush on Friday lunchtimes then roll into town for afternoon tea. Going there with hippies. Going there with punks. Going before the 2 to 10 subbing shift. Taking my twins for cheese rolls and cream horns when they were younger. I like it.