Posts by Hilary Stace
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It's a pity we can't be holograms as that would suit the social phobics and the geographically dispersed.
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Last couple of days been at a conference at Te Papa - where the prominent display of what you need in an emergency kit is very very, popular.
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Lucy: some vegetarians still ate things with animal products (eg gelatine). Just been rung for our blood. Unfortunately, Oscar (O+) and me (A-) are both fainters after blood donation.
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Ooohhh Jackie. That sounds so interesting and welcoming. I want to go. (But Autism NZ conference starts tomorrow so can't this time). Can we have a photo of that lovely collection?
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I would just like to thank the author of this blog and the other earthquake related posts on Public Address over the last few days. It has been quite sobering waiting to hear the regular voices report in and then hearing all the stories. Meanwhile Russell and the other old hands tried to keep people calm. I've always lived in Wellington and vaguely expect 'the big one' at any time. But it's hard to comprehend what the reality of that might be like in terms of immediate coping, all sorts of losses (home work business sleep education identity normality), over the following days and months.
Thanks to the person who cycled to the whisky shop and all the others just being good humans in all sorts of ways. I wonder how Joe is and Islander's whanau member with the glass injuries. And whether Philip's child still thinks the earthquakes are just annoying.
I foresee a compilation of useful information for the rest of us if and when we face our own disasters. Like Emma's tip to have cash on hand. A good pikelet recipe would be helpful too.
My little grief is the repertory theatre in Kilmore Street. (Warning trivia: I once made a pilgrimage to Christchurch to see what used to be called the Radiant Theatre, and the other public buildings provided by benefactor Thomas Edmonds, when I was researching the Havelock North based School of Radiant Living (Ed Hillary's parents were stalwarts and it had a formative influence on the young Ed). Built in the late 1920s it hosted a long list of speakers on the international 'new agey' circuit before that term was invented. The rising sun Edmonds symbol was a hint.)
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Many seem to be members of the already rich and powerful elite, and we don't need to give them more wealth or power.
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It's the people around JB I worry about, and I don't even live in Auckland.
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Emma, it was a trifle confusing that Kathryn Ryan mentioned that that Emma Hart was in the Wellington studio with her, while you had just written about being in bed in Christchurch.
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I hear Brian Edwards has become a born-again Banks supporter after the latter's recent heart-on-his-sleeve events.
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Yesterday I went to Palmerston North where they had just felt the edge of the Porangahau earthquake that morning. Then back in Wellington in time for two Cook Strait-based littlies at around 4 pm. Nothing like Christchurch of course but we are all connected and its a bit unsettling in a what's next sense.
Re the politicians it seems some of the local ones are working quite hard under the media radar in their regions trying to help where they can while dealing with their own damage.