Posts by Hebe
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Go on, tell for those of us very unlooped, who is Joanne Black's husband and who does he work for?
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Yes; fuck it. Getting to Halswell is not easy. I go to Lincoln a couple of times a week and the trip is so much more tricky and time-consuming now. The car-pool has fallen apart because people have moved house or left. The childcare back-ups have left town. And I miss Java, Ballantynes basement for retro tucker and a whole lot of other things that I can't even remember now. And the Art Gallery shop for those blank black notebooks. And the art shop in Manchester St. And Kawa cafe in Avoca valley. And the proper Piko.
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to Islander,
I didn't know that...we stick close to home these days. Just over to Burwood seems like"there be dragons" territory now. Does anyone else make sure one of the parents is in the area of their children's school at all times? After June 13, we're both a lot more jumpy; and any other city would be the same. My innocence is lost; I know what nature can do now.
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I felt something in my chest shut down, lock into a hardness. Like drawing in a cold winter-morning breath and having it stick. It was, I realised, Coping. It was ensuring that what I saw wasn't going to make me feel upset – or much of anything else.
That's a great desciption of the the indescribable Emma. The nearest I have experienced to that "thing" I do in Chch now is what I called "putting on my city eyes" when I lived in London; when it all got too much, too noisy, too dirty, too busy, too sad seeing the homeless next to the uber-rich, I put on my city eyes and just didn't see it or feel it all. Eventually it became automatic to wear my city eyes every time I went out the door.
It's what I do here now, though last evening at dusk I saw the wooden ribs of the Basilica dome against the sunset. You could see through the dome! That nearly broke me.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I've thought the same about Stockholm Syndrome. Not that I don't want the earth to be quiet...maybe if I don't pay it any attention it won't move? Such are the random thoughts of the hostages; along with resigning myself to never sleeping without a good pair of stomping shoes by the bed. My dearly beloved must have a jemmy bar under his side of the bed "in case I need to smash my way through to the children/out the door". Seems reasonable to him, and he can sleep that way. A city full of OCD?
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As a regular concert goer I would say, hell yeah.
As a parent of three promising 'hell-raisers', I'm not so sure eitherParenting is complex. Not a situation that twit Nigel Latta would have to deal with I bet.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to David Haywood,
But the land is so poked that the Govt has declared it uninhabitable! Surely Tower's view cannot stand up in law. Stand strong David.
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Hard News: That's Entertainment!, in reply to recordari,
My stepson was pointed by Iggy at that BDO as a particularly good hell-raiser. I don't know whether we should be proud.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to kevyn,
Good one Kevyn. My gut is that if hold-outs are numerous enough and vocal enough and persistent long enough that the banks will begin to take an interest and ask questions of Key, if not demand answers. Which bank has the most exposure to the Chch housing market; find out and start working on them too. Banks are worried already about the prospect of mass mortgage defaults; they cannot and will not let the Govt sign them away in favour of insurers.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to Sacha,
No.