Posts by Hebe
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An uplifting feb 22 commemoration idea: dropping flowers in the rivers at various spots around town to create a "river of flowers". I like this idea: an opportunity to stop and reflect, without being mawkish and over-long.
http://www.healthychristchurch.org.nz/river-of-flowers.aspx
The River of Flowers project is being lead by Healthy Christchurch and the Avon-Otakaro Network (AvON). The project grew from a Healthy Christchurch and CERA poll late last year on how Cantabrians wanted to commemorate the first anniversary of February 22nd 2011.
The poll showed that many Cantabrians expected an event in Hagley Park similar to the memorial service held previously. A significant number of respondents however supported having local events that allow communities to be together to commemorate, and to look to the future.
The River of Flowers is our collaborative attempt to provide these opportunities for people to commemorate the day in their own way and with their community.
On 22 February 2012 from 8am to 8pm, people will be able to drop a flower in the River and write a message for a Tree of Hope. From 12:30 to 1:30pm, local community groups will host the sites. At 12:51 two minutes silence will be held, followed by the release of red helium-filled biodegradable balloons
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Islander,
Thanks: never seen one, heard them plenty. This one was a chorus cicada. Their Māori name is kihikihi wawā – wawā meaning ‘to roar like the sound of heavy rain’
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/cicadas/3 -
Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Hebe,
eyeing up
Licking their lipsI'll correct that: they are further along than window-shopping; now at the measuring up for new curtains stage. Sad thing is that the softening-up part of the Christchurch asset sale process is like blowtorching a marshmallow in this decimated city.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Islander,
Yes, we all like it, dog included. I get Kaikoura dried karengo.
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I love that snow dalek. Here's our snow gargoyle, who was evilly pleased with the offerings.
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Today I wish I had been able to photograph a beautiful thing with wings I rescued from the cat. I have never seen anything like it: black with iridescent green body about 2cm long and huge dragonfly-like clear wings. It buzzed and clicked very loudly. Does anyone have a clue what it could be?
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Islander,
kareko
What is it?
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Islander,
I like the swimming, walking and cooking and eating bits; must venture down again soon. That area is part of my childhood: I was a dam baby, born in a town up the Waitaki where I spent my first seven or eight years. The hills got me. So much so that when I had been living in London for years I went to a movie shot in Otago about an itinerant and a young girl. Came out, said to husband over dinner in Soho,"I'm going home." Six weeks later I was back, he was not. The land has always called me back to the South Island, whispering and enticing and hearing the wind when I was ten thousand miles from home.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Islander,
Moeraki IS nice...
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Christchurch has done well in retaining core assets,
And we don't have to weld down our manhole covers in the street to stop them blowing because the pipes fail so regularly.
If the Government thinks the natives here are grumpy now, just watch us when they try to sell off the family silver. It goes against the grain, even for conservatives in this city.
