Posts by Emma Hart
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Okay, obviously Saturday is problematic now. So we have changed the venue. The plan is now:
- Hagley Park, picnic by the children's playground at 1pm, and
- Dux, less child- and more alcohol-oriented comisercelebrations from 3pm.Hopefully, this is okay for people.
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And, as you've just pointed out on Twitter, the Herald is saying McVicar was a character witness for Garrett.
I do not understand how calling Garth McVicar as a character witness could possibly help anyone's case.
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You do get that this was a symbolic gesture, don't you ?
I get that it's being presented as a symbolic gesture. Does that actually make it one? "We're going to give you a symbolic helping hand, please ignore its resemblance to a kick in the groin."
But as Craig (I think) said, it's not that we feel the Greens are MORE culpable, rather less. It's that we expected better. Perhaps that's something of a mixed blessing for the Greens.
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I can see why they would want to adopt a stance of symbolically supporting the people of Canterbury.
Except it doesn't. Saying it does doesn't make it so. And as a person of Canterbury, I don't like being used like this.
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A friend of mine did English honours at Otago in the early '90s and he said doing so "destroyed my love of reading for about a year afterwards".
It didn't destroy my love of reading, at all. What it did was change the way I read. It probably was about a year before I could read fiction purely for pleasure and without analysing as I went, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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Okay, people, we've had a slight change of plan, and it's a good'un.
We have an open invitation to turn up at David and Jennifer's place from 1 on Saturday afternoon. Bring drinks and nibbly things. There will be running about in the back yard and a treehouse we've been assured adults are allowed to play in.
As the afternoon progresses, there may be embarkation to more imbibulous premises if people are so inclined.
Email/DM me or David if you need the address on Avonside Drive. Or someone more artistically inclined could make us a big "Public Address" sign to put in the front yard.
But seriously. Yous are all invited. I shall expect to see new faces. You hear me, Lilith?
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The Hop was very nice on Saturday afternoon, it felt great to be back in town with things more or less normal, especially after having spent the previous 3 nights here.
Good to know you're back home, Joe.
I've just received news which ensures I must drink on Saturday - good news, my friend from the Ministry of Redacted is coming to visit.
I love the Hop, though outside at the Dux may afford more room for Isabel's children to run about. I'm easy either way.
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Something I've been pondering while lounging in the sun today. Now things are going back to "normal", how would Chch PASsers feel about meeting up for quiet drinks in the (hopefully) sun, say this coming Saturday afternoon?
Normally I'd suggest the central city for ease of getting to and from - the Dux, or apparently the Lanes is okay and the Twisted Hop is nice when the weather's good. But if people don't feel comfortable in there yet we could go somewhere like No4.
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I was just inspecting my house foundations (and feeling a little glum) when this parcel was delivered by courier from PA reader Ross Mason.
Ross, you bloody legend, how wonderful.
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surely it's not the building that is earthquake prone, it's the city.
No no, they mean in an earthquake, the building will be prone. Or, I suppose, supine.