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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
They are fast growers if they have water
And they like their water from above . My Mum for many years nurtured one by emptying her (cold) hot-water bottle on it every morning. :-)
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Hurrah for someone pushing the pushbikes!
The scheme was working well and he hoped to enlist other organisations that wanted to offer an easy and eco-friendly way for staff to get around the city. “Those big employers who want to provide a nice sustainable way for their staff to get out at lunch and get around.”
He has a concept using the humble shipping container to house the bike racks and automated kiosks so they can be easily rolled out where they are needed. That would allow the bikes to be placed in any temporary pop-up areas that would not warrant a large public transport investment.
His grand plan was to get the bikes rolled out across the city for the public to hire, as in Europe.
Transport had been the most popular subject of public submissions for the Christchurch City Council’s draft central-city plan, which was released last year.
Henderson saw public bikes as a cheap and effective way to “connect the dots” of the city as buildings and hubs pop up from the rubble.
He had spoken to city hotels, which were keen to get bike stands outside their front door for their guests to use after reopening.
Bicycle Ventures also has a website, not that you’d know it from the Stuff article. Go them.
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Paul Campbell,
it is illegal in NZ to call someone a “bastard” (unless they actually are)
I’ll never forget the time I called a friend a bastard for winning at poker, when we were both in our teens. He said calmly, “Quite possibly.”
I’ve never felt the same about that word since. -
This is a good night.
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Stephen Judd,
People seem to mostly think the human rights issues are based on discrimination against factors one cannot help, like race or sex.
But also that certain skin colours, genders, sexualities etc. are better than others. Saying that the poor gay people can't help it assumes there's something wrong with being gay, and so gayness should be avoided if possible.
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Hard News: Changing news, in reply to Bart Janssen,
This is the home of the pendant
And the dangling conversation. ;-)
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There was one house in my street that had 2 concrete chimneys, thick and solid all the way from the hearth to the chimney-pot. They were in no danger of disintegration! But post-quake the land under the house had subsided slightly and the chimneys were leaning dangerously and threatening the remainder of the house as well as the occupants. The chimneys had to be cut free of their surroundings and lifted entire through the roof with a very large crane.
Quite a spectacle for the neighbourhood!
Stainless steel flues are definitely the way to go.
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Hard News: A long way yet, in reply to Islander,
Building a house on Pitt Island – where the cement FROZE before it set? Yep.
Holy moly.
Siblings are the best. Can't imagine what it'd be like being an only child. -except for a lot quieter and with a lot less bossing around! :-)
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Hard News: A long way yet, in reply to Hebe,
Make Me a City In a Week, or something.
Some people claim to have done a whole planet in that time, one city should be a doddle!
I would just love to wake up one morning and find it was all a bad dream. Or some secret conspiracy to mess with our minds*. :-)
*it worked! You can stop now!
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Hard News: A long way yet, in reply to Hebe,
I will keep an ear open
Thanks Hebe and Islander. :-)