Posts by Kate Hannah
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have season tickets - and will not be mising this one.
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Man, was that a great game - both me and him indoors on the edge of our seats (couch, at home) despite neither of us being real fans. My Welsh heritage was very proud of those boyos, who played incredibly hard and nearly beat the world champs. Pleased that the whole experience was good - all reports in from friends are that the games have been great places to be so far - kids and all. Granddad is taking Mr 9 to North Harbour for Sth Africa vs Namibia next week. This RWC thing seems pretty good, so far. Auckland buzzing all weekend - flags flying, people everywhere. Love it.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
happy to provide
ah the lovely PAS community! Thanks for the offer Geoff: I'm a Hamilton girl (though the parentals have moved out to Raglan) so we will not be short of places to stay! In fact, I studied down the hall from your office probably - if the English department & the Screen & Media department are still up there in IJK block. Am looking forward to a Waikato Stadium rugby experience actually, given that the only other live rugby game I've ever been to was Otago vs the Boks at Carisbrook in 1995. We're in the cheap seats; ninety-year old nana is going all out with the best seats in the house so the whole crowd will be able to hear her rousing 'Land of our Fathers.'
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Tom Beard,
right yes - that's beyond my capabilities as a parent, to be honest.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Russell Brown,
ooh that actually hadn't occurred to me Russell. Plus one here for that - I'd send my 90 year old rugby-mad Welsh grandmother and her equally rugby-mad gentleman caller .... in fact, if that little vignette doesn't score two elderly people tickets, there's something wrong with the world.....
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Oh hear hear! as a non-fan, your previous pieces about just having fun with it have enticed me to get tix for the whole family to an early pool game, Wales vs Samoa (to make my Welsh grandmother proud, and cause at least the singing will be good), and generally do exactly what you state above
having fun in the various places that have games
We're heading in to Party Central on the 9th to witness the powhiri, the arriving waka and the music - as part of great party New Zealand is throwing for us and the rest of the world. The whole no shagging thing has me confused, and I have to say, a bit worried about all those kids who are very into the RWC - how are we supposed to explain all that to them? Not quite like the red socks campaign when you think of it like that, eh Saatchis?
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to Deborah,
I can recall snow falling some time in the late eighties - I was but a child so cannot be certain as to the year (not '87 as we were on sabbatical in UK), but it didn't really settle - so I think you and yours have been rather lucky.
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we took the kids along to the opening day's festivities on Saturday - was delightful to see the huge numbers there, and the families in particular - we sometimes feel a bit like the only people with three kids who like to spend time in the city/at Britomart/etc. The range of activities, the public art, the design features of the Quarter as a whole - and the rightful focus on tangata whenua contributions - made us super positive for the future. (I'm a romantic, okay?) A friend who was involved in organising the waka and powhiri said that the 400-500 or so people who where there for the early morning ceremony were really moved and engaged - and that he's really looking forward to the waka coming in on September 9th for the RWC opening ceremony.... Big tick thus far from me for the revivification of the waterfront.
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
along with the striped mothercare buggy, I am also a Playcentre kid. 2 generations of our family attended Peachgrove Playcentre in Hamilton..... the withdrawal of funding from such a critical resource is hugely ridiculous. When I was attending with my kids in the early 2000s, the area around Peachgrove had a lot of refugee and immigrant families - for many of those women, we were their only contact with English speakers, since for cultural reasons they largely stayed within a female community. At Playcentre we supported language learning and translated at doctors appointments and discussed minutae of New Zealand culture. That couldn't have happened at a regular daycare centre or even kindy - it was the fact that the model was parent-led that made it accessible and culturally safe for that community of women, who were thus empowered and supported, Quite apart from the excellent early childhood education their children recieved. If my mother was still alive, I imagine she would be reaching out to her old Playcentre Federation, National Association of Women and Homebirth Association chums to organise some kind of protest....
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Paul Williams,
Nice linkage. I worked with Michael King in 2003 and 2004 on the history of the University. All those people so important - and their stories so interesting. Characters the lot of them.