Posts by Hebe
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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Thanks Joe. Not sure Labour is yet reconstructed enough to be the answer either.
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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
As an aside, it's kinda cute you jumped to this capture thread from t'other capture thread,when it got threadjacked once before by mistake. The hardest thing being, there is politics in everthing, even images, eh? {:)
It is so hard to talk Christchurch and stay on one theme! Like the city the best, the worst. the beautiful and the ugly are all hanging out. A crazy mix-up time; like everything (including basic assumptions, ethics, beliefs) has been thrown up in the air and is slowly floating down to earth in new patterns. And we each try to make sense of our new reality on a daily basis.
Ironic when Greg and I chose to stay here to bring up our late-life babes because it was the "safest" and most family-connected (for us) of the NZ cities. None of that holds true any more. My deep thought often: I dunno any more about anything.
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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Joe Wylie,
You seem to be aware of Hugh Pavletich's initiatives, and Hebe has alluded elsewhere to the murky aims of the Cantabrians Unite group with which he's involved.
Joe, I would like you to rephrase that: I am not ascribing anything murky to Cantabrians Unite.
The group seems to me to be one gathered in the heat of the moment by many people with disparate agendas. Predictably, it hasn't gelled in the way the organisers seem to think it might and now is breaking apart again.
That said, many people are desperate for a voice, representation, and someone or something to help them with some massive problems. They are feeling alone and vulnerable when it comes to protecting their homes and (wider) families, businesses and land: against earthquakes, against the huge insurance companies with their armies of lawyers, against council bureaucracy for starters.
My feeling is that leadership is lacking, but then it would take an exceptional leader in these times to knit people together. Maybe that is the starting point we need: the leaders working together for the residents, landowners, business owners and everyone that makes a city a city.
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Legal Beagle: A matter of conscience, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Hone Harawira is not popular with a large number of people. He may even be unpopular with a large number of people of Maori descent,
Why assume that Maori because of their race are left or leftish?
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Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Emma Hart,
Now I need to buy bookshelves...
Our house had a weed-out of books when we moved house three years ago and got them down to 30 boxes full of our favourites, odities and rarities. Those 30 boxes have sat in storage untouched for three years -- how many could I get on an iPad?
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Mainly CCC libraries for reading material -- if they don't have it I request it be bought. Or online all over.
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The latest: Penny Lane last weekend for a CD for the boys (Beatles White album). I could swear some of the customers have been in the same position since the original shop opened.
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Muse: Postcard from Cologne: Willst Du…, in reply to jb,
May dire things happen to her
54. Menopausal. Doomed to writing worthless pulp fiction.
Is that nothing?Could be 35 and cleaning toilets. Know who I would rather be.
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Eric Crampton,
We made it to a petrol station in Hornby on fumes - the other ones along the way were sold out.
I feel your stress. I can't convey how panicked I felt when I knew I couldn't get my kids out of town because the bridges in my area were down until that weekend and the other road was blocked and I had only a small amount of petrol. Fleeing, or wanting to, is such a primal reaction. Shell Brougham Street near Ensors is where to head - especially late night when the tankers come in.
The land question is one of the things that is reshaping the city right now, and no zoning/unzoning is fast enough to stop the way Christchurch is sprawling. Massive and long-term changes in the wider city are happening and the regulators haven't got a hope of controlling it all.
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Up Front: Making It Better, in reply to Emma Hart,
Emma you're helping make it better.