Posts by Russell Brown
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Okay, this is actually quite funny.
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Hard News: The greening of the Red Zone, in reply to Ashley Campbell,
Quite a few of us have plans :) The plan of the group I chair, Greening the Red Zone, it to return as much of the red zone as possible to its natural, native state and restore a bit of the balance in Christchurch’s environment. We want native bush birds such as tui, kereru, fantails, grey warblers, morepork, kaka etc to be as common in Christchurch as our water birds and our exotic birds are.
Good stuff.
What do you think about the many exotic trees that remain? Are any of them a problem? It seems good in principle to me to leave the garden trees that survived the earthquakes and now give the land much of its character.
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Hard News: The greening of the Red Zone, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
a photo of the former Hay-Haywood residence
You can imagine my confusion.
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Hard News: The greening of the Red Zone, in reply to Hebe,
it feels like the whole place is becoming a fenced-off park. Maintaining it all in some way is going to be a massive cost.
Hell yes. I hope someone has a plan.
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Hard News: The greening of the Red Zone, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Paging Dr Haywood to triage…
I actually meant to take a photo of the former Hay-Haywood residence, but I rode past it without realising. It can be hard to work out where you are without the houses to navigate by.
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Hard News: The greening of the Red Zone, in reply to Hebe,
It really does. Some parts – around Banks Ave for instance – are beautiful because the soil is great and the remaining large garden shrubs and trees are flourishing.
I was quite struck by how important the trees are, big and small.
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Hard News: Friday Music: It's good to…, in reply to hamisht,
two from me, both from people who knew what was happening at the time:
Hi Hamish., thanks for coming by. Key Public Address tip: if you just paste in the URL of a YouTube or Vimeo video (not the embed code) it will automagically embed when you save the comment.
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I like the way this thread is going!
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Hard News: Friday Music: Christchurch,…, in reply to Hebe,
Plenty of strange in that theatre – if someone could get people to cough them up, you’d have a decent sackful of Chch strange stories :)
How would we get those stories? A Tardis with voice-to-text transcription?
It was a very good talk: true to the era.
Thanks, guys. I'm quite touched by the reception. And it was nice to acknowledge Bruce Russell's vision with Time to Go while he was in the room.
The good news is that it will be going online as text, pictures and video. I need to talk to the gallery about whether it makes more sense for them or me to publish, or even both.
The text needs a little tidying up, as do the photographic permissions, but it'll turn up before too long.
And no offence to my fellow older persons, but was also nice to get an appreciative email from someone who was four years old in 1981.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Christchurch,…, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
I personally think Siltbreeze et al should fly me to America to talk about the old days when when I had SYTA play in my back yard.
And Matt Goody had a bit of moment when I told him I lived in the house where Beard of Bees was recorded :-)
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