Capture: Great Southern Land
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Rob Stowell, in reply to
Thanks Hebe, it was a little under-done, but lovely anyway. (Rip-sticks instead of surfboards. Family dinner at the Joyful… )
Yeah, I so understand that ‘demands have lifted’ feeling! Even though they haven’t really, a change is as good as a … change :-) -
JacksonP, in reply to
Ha. Monday, 4th. Turned 11. Can't believe it really.
I'm afraid of jinxing it, but since starting Intermediate this year, they've been the happiest kids around. They love the school. Kowhai, FTR. Feel incredibly lucky.
Anyhoo, what was that about our own thread? ;-)
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More from New Brighton pier.
Fishing.
Catch of the day.
Happy fisher-people.
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Rob Stowell, in reply to
since starting Intermediate this year, they’ve been the happiest kids around.
Yay! Can't beat it.
New school for year 8, and so far, touch wood, also going well for thing one and thing two. Though they wanted a day off Wednesday because some of the *boys* decided it was 'hug-day' and they didn't want to get boy-germs :)
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Lovely photos from both my home towns!
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Hebe, in reply to
Anyhoo, what was that about our own thread? ;-)
Double happy?
Ours are really happy too; the dreaded year 10 has arrived and they are, at least to the family, lovely (not saintly). Mostly. Well sometimes they aren't; but not seriously unlovely if YKWIM.
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Hebe, in reply to
some of the *boys* decided it was 'hug-day' and they didn't want to get boy-germs :)
No fear of that in our 'hood. I sometimes wonder if the pair will end up living together in an island castle all their lives: they just don't have a strong need for others.
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Hebe, in reply to
Thanks Lilith. Better now. I didn't want to whine at the time else I wouldn't have stopped ;-) Looks like you all had a fine and productive time.
We stopped by the Pallet Street market on the way home. Mr D was there with his wares (and I will hold him responsible for the moral degeneration of my angels from now on as their father loaded up with Viz). It was really very good: a cool spot, a very warm and sunny early evening, good stalls in the main (not tat, not poncey, just right) and people dropping in for browsing and socialising. Queen Victoria was watching over it from her plinth in Vic Square.
The Square was originally the market square for colonial Christchurch, and Maori used the area before that, so this evening seemed a satisfying completion of an historic circle of burghers winding down at the end of another week in a pioneer town.
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Kebabette, in reply to
Hi Hebe - I too got Viz at the Pallet Pavilion Vintage Market! And a catgirl mask for the bairn.
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Hebe, in reply to
And a fine woolly jumper for me. I wish I had bought the green teapot....
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Hebe,
The Bats video (apologies if it has been posted before ). I thought I was over the sad but this is so good. It captures the feeling like nothing else I have seen.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10869529
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Emma Hart, in reply to
It captures the feeling like nothing else I have seen.
Yes, seriously, I cannot recommend this enough for conveying the atmosphere of now, here.
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JacksonP, in reply to
Yes, seriously, I cannot recommend this enough for conveying the atmosphere of now, here.
That is kind of the feeling I got walking through town at night between Pomeroys and the Motel on the other side of the CBD. Beautifully shot video. Wonderful song.
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Hebe,
I like that he found the uplifting (the angels on top of the Basilica ruins still there; walking in the sun by the river and rotunda) among the carnage. I still cannot figure out where that phoenix palm is/was. All beautifully shot, I agree.
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Lilith __, in reply to
That phoenix palm has me foxed also!! I keep thinking it's on the High/Manchester corner but don't think it can be.
What I love about that video is the sad look in their eyes. The sense of wrongness, nothing being as it should be. It's not dramatising the destruction, just gently bearing witness.
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Hebe, in reply to
The sense of wrongness, nothing being as it should be.
Lilith you have found the words I have been looking for -- for a year or so -- to describe that feeling.
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Hebe,
I guess, having done a Google street view (which still shows the old city whereas the satellite map has been updated) that the phoenix palm is front of the Excelsior. The wall is the side of the Excelsior (you can just see the containers four or five high behind it in Manchester St. I can think of four significant periods of my life that I spent much time within 50 metres of that spot in different buildings. It's all there in my head and street view never lies, does it?
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Dad was by the Excelsior on 22 February. And my partner was conceived there.
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Rob Stowell, in reply to
I can think of four significant periods of my life that I spent much time within 50 metres of that spot in different buildings.
classic strip of chch, that bit of manchester/high st. smiths, alices, so many little shops and bars and places to eat.
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Jane Pearson, in reply to
One of my favourite places to be in Christchurch - I miss it.
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barren warren...
Some brief info on the Chchch Saleyards site and why it is in limbo.... has a great aerial shot of the labyrinth of fluorescent throw-ups...if someone could just talk to this family,
organise a Working Bee this could be
a fabulous walk-thru, al fresco, street art gallery,
with parking!!Something real,
rather than a fashion statement
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JacksonP, in reply to
Fascinating, Ian.
Here’s some more of the yards.
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And the Instagrams (posted on twits earlier). Including the Diptych.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Saleyards gallery from 2009 by Brendon Keenan.
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Robert Urquhart, in reply to
if someone could just talk to this family,
organise a Working BeeI'm part of a group of volunteers working on making something of their other property - or at least slowing the rate of deterioration - talking to the family is nigh impossible, we sprang from serendipity and a blog post found by someone who had contact with the property manager.
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