Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Russell Brown,
These guys want to do the right thing
That’s the frustration of many helpees; good intentions become top-down “this is how we are going to help you” edicts. What is needed is for the helper to ask the helpee; “What do you need? What do you want? How can we help?” That hierarchical way of helping is not badly intentioned, quite the reverse, but it is not the way to go about making a real difference.
But the helpee often doesn't mean to be ungracious or ungrateful, and it's a hard thing to articulate. You've done well in this piece.
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Congratulations on a reasoned response Russell. Giving the fingers must have been awfully tempting.
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Apologies to all for the threadjack: Christchurch is the only thing about which I know anything of general interest to comment on these days apart from cats and teenagers. I read the rest. I'll try to keep it to the two tales of city thread so youse in the rest of the world can avoid it.
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Hard News: It's not funny because it's…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
You see one reason they’re dragging the clearance/rebuild out? Keep wages down, make bigger profits.
(For instance, if they blew up all the hazardous buildings a year ago, as they’re doing with this one, most of the CBD could have been reopened.)
I'm happy that the rebuild is slower than the council and pollies try to make out; there's more chance of better buildings and a better city. If it were all rebuilt now the place would be appalling -- insurers are not in the business of green, or pretty when it comes to rebuilds.
As for the explosion option, the three males in the house are rapt: better than a Crusaders win apparently. We'll be watching.
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Hard News: It's not funny because it's…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
More greed, more workers than work in Christchurch my arse.
Close family member is working for a EQR contractor. Work is not steady -- gaps of a week or two at times. He is not paid for down times, supplies his own tools, works on contract, self-employed so he covers all taxes, ACC etc. He's not getting rich, sometimes he's not getting by. When the rebuild of residential houses happens, work will happen more steadily. but the money will be in working long hours, not in the hourly rate.
Peter Townsend of the CECC mentioned a couple of weeks ago as an aside in a news story that the requirement for workers could be as low as 7500, not the 20 or 30,000 often quoted.
The rebuild is a decades-long project: in general the plan seems to be first under 100k repairs on TC1 and TC2 land, then rebuilding homes on good land, then in over five years repairs and rebuilds on more difficult land, meanwhile the CBD commercial reconstruction happening, but much more slowly.
The CBD is not Christchurch , many seem to be assuming that the CBD is integral to people living here: it's not. We're here, working, living, going to school, we have all changed where and how we do the stuff of life. 80 per cent of the buildings in the CBD will come down: even if they are repairable the land underneath means the seismic work required makes demo a better option for many owners.
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Capture: Ice Rink Luck, in reply to Lilith __,
Great captures Lilith I was driving from Brighton to town this morning and saw some amazing fringes and feathery edges on the nor'west arch.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
They skin avocados too but they leave you the skin.
And kick the stones around on the roof obviously.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Joe Wylie,
- I've seen lemons still on the tree, tidily stripped of their outer yellow layer
I never knew that!
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Islander,
...get a good .22 with a silencer(or guests with same!). Lady-down-the-road will hear nothing. Laser-sight is a plus (I use it round here when shooting possums) as it is dead-accurate...
Possums, bless their dear little dame-ednaish souls, are phuquing destructive little beasts and should be destroyed where-ever encountered***Possums is nasty little fiends; their claws slash like cut-throat razors. Sit Fishious had to have a 30cm slash in his belly stitched up after one garked him while he was going about cat business in the Wellington green belt. The opossums would streak up the power poles and hang from the top letting off hideous screams, then swing over to the roof and clatter around all night making a noise like like drunken drag queens.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Aposhum?