And I hope others will post their own words and pictures about the Christchurch?

People-watching around Sumner always made me think of Dennis Glover's poem...

Cave Rock is made of toffee, and the sea of lemonade
and the little waitress wavelets?

I love being able to do this. So thank you!

Why thank you Joe. :-)

Thanks for the great shot, Kebabette. I know you've put a link, but would you like to post a few other Gap FIller pics here? Maybe a selection from their various events? This would be a great place to show them.

I find that image particularly haunting. And the sense of quiet determination in all those faces. People who?ve been through so much, still fighting.

Oh Sofie, I'm trying to work this stuff out in my head! Along with what I'm doing with my life in general. :-)

details?

The place is full of knit wits.

classic. I was just describing that to someone last night.

She and her kids lived next door to a murderer who hid the bodies of his victims under?

Has the moderator not read the terms and conditions??

In light of my previous posts on latent inferiority complexes, 'last place aversion syndrome' and bringing out the inner Social Darwinist in failed social climbers, I believe a word has been coined for?

This view is the old Press site looking from Gloucester across once-was-Press and Worcester st to the Provincial Government buildings.

Kinda way off topic, but is the clock still on the hillside above Alexandra? I always liked that clock. First time I went to Alexandra we drove in after dark and the clock kinda hung there as if suspended?

Locals race around the rock around the clock! So, yes. :-)

Yeah, I used to wait for the bus under the Government Life Building, and I was oddly fond of the clock. I think it's a friendly enough edifice.

I agree! Standing up to the government, at last!!

Nice logo. And David McPhail never seems to get any older! Thanks for the pics, Gudrun.

Although I don't have strong feelings about the Anglican Cathedral as a building, it is part of our heritage and I certainly think it should be restored/rebuilt if at all feasible.

Great shot. The ruined Clarendon Towers make an striking background!

Keep up the good fight Cantabrians! Thanks for the update Gudrun.Wherever I look at the moment people are protesting. Up north is mining, Auckland is Education.Wellington is up for more Public Service cuts so wonder if they are next?

I put up the rainbow link for you; as it is a good "sign" for?

And Southern peoples – he aitua tino pai (especially when well-coloured) ? many thanks Hebe!

Like Te-oha-a-Maru and Te-tihi-a-Maru and, indeed, Te Kohu-a-Maru, just up on the bluff, right here-
for no reason?

I think it?s really cool that we each see our own personal rainbows :-)

I?ve been told that Witch Hill is associated with rainbows, can anyone explain?

The comments are much better than the article!

I always giggle when someone derides "do-gooders". Better than no-hopers, eh! :-)

Keep persevering Joe – it may depend on who is moderating.

I note you are referring to a David, a photographer. Is he in the far background next to Alexander or is he behind Anna Craighton?

I would?

He is David Alexander, the bearded bloke in a blue jacket...ex-Press photojournalist, all-round good guy, and my friend (and my neighbour Judith's friend) for +quarter?

Oh dear, I hope this was a planned refugism, not an unplanned one! Hope you're OK.

I put a comment earlier on that Jane Bowron article with a link to this post (Two Tales of a City), and the mod has printed the comment but removed the link, which makes it nonsense.

I'm against?

BTW that cheap shot about Ian sharing a surname with spawn-of-Satan Lianne (no relation) has got to be in flagrant breach of the Press's?

Hope things are moving along with your plans re:relocation and settling into a new place where a?

Well, I am sure I will sell my home here* – but I?

Good luck with the repairs Gudrun. We have hit the pause button on ours until spring/summer — the family are in a big catch-up this year with life, jobs, hobbies, studies, socialising, everything.?

I can imagine how you feel with so many commitments on hand. However spring is around the corner and things will improve.

I am looking forward to meeting up with Lilith and you at some stage.
Tschuess
Goodie

maybe it's either speed or accuracy? He's certainly hooning through the questions!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/business/7015814/50k-for-Lyttelton-organic-store

I seem to keep getting away with this, so why change?

I know we live in?

Nice to see you taking it to the man on this Press comments page...
– Shame Nicholas Lynch can't spell your name,?

The Law Commission's media industry paper has gone some way towards it.

Is this government or theatre of the absurd?

BTW if you look closely at that Gudrun shot of the uncomfortable Roger Sutton?

http://porcupinefarm.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/quake-czar-sutton-snaps.html?spref=fb

Excellent collage by the way.

I'm looking up the Sumner valley and it's like being inside a snow globe, the snow's falling so thickly. The hills are sugared and the pine trees fit for any cliched Christmas card.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH3WvI_S6-k

Great shot. Have removed the other so you can try again if you like.

;-)

You've got your blimmin Venus transit! (and well done, BTW!)

What this trifle?

Apparently it cut the mustard after all. (LOLz)

PS. I offered it to them. Seems the least I could do. ;-)

You with your piffling trifles ;-)

There's dust in your lens.

:-)

Snow business like...
I've just come back in from whacking all the trees and shrubs on the property, as it is several branches on the Feijoa have snapped and fallen on the?

Yes – madly jealous of Jack and other transit-snappers!

I?m gonna call this one Luncheon in Meringue.

Obviously doesn't behave like water. ;-)

Love your river shot.

Brrrr.

on the plus side, the UV-index is probably way down. ;-)

Hopefully not peach tree branches : )

I'd love to see that...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoW9z2PLvmM&feature=youtu.be

Word on the street is that one of All Fall Down's only EP Wallpaper Coat (on Flying Nun) sold on Trade?

Gudrun, this is like a perspective illustration! :-)

Anyway, keep 'em coming.

You must've had your snowshoes on :-)

Good morning Gudrun! And all.

The holly and the powerlines? Should be a song! :-)

Gosh, I know that yew tree (and its friend) very well! It normally stands so proud. Perhaps it will shake itself overnight?

The clouds of what look like steam I think are the snow sublimating (going?

Thank you Hebe! :-) I love Risingholme Park and miss being there!
I wonder if the monarchs will come this winter, there are a couple of trees they particularly favour.

Harriet the cat had at least one sleeping spot inside that yew. Perhaps?

Thinking that very think today! At the big tree I know the monarchs loop and play among the falling leaves.

I tried photographing them in their own tree but they were surprisingly hard to do justice too, they blend into the tree.

Feeling like a frantic drift, so tell me a story.

Anyone else getting The Chills?