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If I can be trivial….
I was charmed by a photo caption in today’s Press claiming that “steel gentry” was holding up the front of the cathedral.
I looked, but couldn’t see any iron ladies or bowler-hatted caryatids in the picture. Sad.
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Ian, you made me laugh til I cried. Puns, pathos and toilet humour!
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
How come I’m in the pink
yet they’re shitting pretty?It’s a pisser, innit,
having only a potty in lieu of loo?But better, perhaps, than a drop in a bucket.
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to Sacha,
Gerry Brownlee says there may not be any Rugby World Cup games in Christchurch now but it doesn’t mean Cantabrians can’t have fun.
As long as it's rugby-themed fun, right?!
OK, it sounds like it'll be reused for other stuff...but maybe the Public Library could get a few tens of thousands to buy extra stock for those of us desperate for new things to read? A relatively small amount of money would help a lot of people that way, and particularly the poor, elderly and less able among us.
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And, ooo, it's Friday, so I finally get to post this wee gem, Icelandic bands that are not Sigur Rós, as introduced to you by your friend, Iceland.
It's even funnier because I found this link in Sigur Rós's FB feed.
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Rhian Sheehan is awesome! I was introduced to his work by his wonderful book collaboration with his photographer Dad, Grant: New Zealand Landscapes. You're supposed to listen to the music while you look at the pictures, but both music and pictures also stand alone.
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[and I realise I'm giving advice about how not to give advice. Heh! :-D ]
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to Sacha,
Classic masculinity (how we’re helpful)
I'm a recovering advice-giver myself. Other people's problems always seem so much simpler than one's own!
But if people want advice they generally ask for it.
And if they don't, then listening respectfully, sending good wishes, hugs, flowers, gifts, telling jokes or funny stories (depending on circumstances!)...these are ways of showing you care without alienating the person you're trying to help.
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to Sacha,
Wow, those islands of green look pretty small, don't they. But I know it's been such a mammoth task getting them going. One of the wastewater workers in our street told us that there were 16 breaks in the main sewer line in our (short) street, plus many silt blockages that required repeated waterblasting and pumping. And the sewer line wasn't where they expected it to be when they dug for it. It's 2.5m down, and they dug to 3.5m where they thought it would be...nothing. Apparently the older pipelines aren't well documented and they've had to hunt for them.
So you can imagine the scale of the work that's been done.
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to Sacha,
so everyone has a chance at distraction and food for the soul
A lot of people are missing the public libraries really badly. Central, Linwood and Sumner branches are red-stickered, in all cases I think because of nearby unstable buildings. All their stock is lying where it fell on Feb 22nd. Several other branches are closed (and their stock inaccesible) because their buildings are being used by civil defence and the council. My local library (Linwood) has set up a temporary branch at the local council service centre, with a tiny, miscellaneous stock sourced from other branches. And the mobile library bus is attempting to service other suburbs. It's way better than nothing, but it's quite a comedown from the cornucopia of material we're used to.
Performances and events are great, but humbler things like books and CDs and DVDs are to my mind even more important.