Posts by Emma Hart
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No, it's not. From my Facebook feed this morning:
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Isn't there some kid of law about asking your sons to "feel your flow"?
Oh good, it's not just me reading that and wondering how anybody could write it with a straight face.
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Cathedral Square's a godforsaken mess where only tourists dare tread
True, the Square has been an urban design money pit disaster for a good twenty years now. But two blocks over, Victoria Square is lovely. And you'd have to be entirely constructed from the reanimated corpses of property developers to not love Little Hagley Park and the Daffodil Lawn in the spring. I wasn't thinking 'lively' so much as 'lovely' - the ability to pop out from work and find somewhere nice to have lunch.
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Minor point, but people tend to underestimate the creepiness of VR spiders.
I assure you that I don't, ergo there is no way in HELL I'm clicking on that link.
But then I forced myself to remember that, despite spending all my time in those places, that's not my city.
Yeah... everyone lives in a different city, that consists of the bit they live, work in, school in, socialise in, and excludes all the bits they never go in. And not being raised here, I sort of got to pick and choose. So my Chch has arty things - galleries, theatres, musuems, gardeny things - so much park, we do public space really well, booky things, academicky things... Moving to Wellington has always been semi on the cards for our family, but there's no way we're leaving before our kids finish at high school, because we cannot get them that fabulous non-conformist flavour of education anywhere else.
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better even, because the shops opened on Saturdays
My father briefly lived in New Brighton during this period, I think in a halfway house after he came out of Sunnyside. I remember it as a bright vibrant shopping area, where you could get Blue Lagoon ice-cream from a little parlour upstairs that had an unthinkable number of flavours - like, more than twenty.
I've been out there a couple of times as an adult for events, but going to anything major becomes a nightmare given the utterly bizarre traffic access to the beachfront area. And yes, that shopping area is now uncomfortably ghost-towny.
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Christchurch's residential desirability is kind of arse-about, with most low-lying waterfront areas being relegated to the proles
We were on to that whole global warming thing first.
According to Parker...
His remarks are prefaced by: "I would be disturbed to find out that we had a vigilante approach to security going on."
So, I get the sense that the boneheads know that it's white kids providing the majority of the graf in New Brighton, and that's why it's so scary -- spiritual and cultural, rather than just physical, infiltration by the Other.
Ah, it's the coloured paint, isn't it?
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I suppose it's all white if the vandalising makes a profit.
This is Christchurch. If it doesn't, the council will bail you out anyway.
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I suspect if it were called "balanced-based exercise" and not some weird Chinese word, you'd be hailing its virtues.
Ah, that's the road to a completely different kind of Batfuck Crazy.
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I can usually figure out what the title refers to but I'm being dense today, could you give me a clue, because I don't seem to have one?
Hah, I cunningly tricked you by not using a cultural reference or three layers of meaning. It's just that all through my rehab people kept saying, "Well, you're looking better," and I'd think, "Holy shit, better than WHAT?"
We should have taken photos, really, especially of my arm, that was spectacular.
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and then scroll down until you see Emma's cover
And if you scroll down a bit further, you can also pre-order The Reserve Bank Annual, which I heartily recommend, especially if your mental state has been a bit boringly level lately.