Surely he gets to ride inside the house?

Either that or you forgot to add?

the insurance person is reading, remember :)

Well, actually...

But crane-type-things and big trucks, equally cool. Any chance of some reaction shots of young Bob?

It's like a fulfilment of the ultimate dadjoke fantasy

Hee hee, too true. "May I take a shower?" Yes, as long as you take?

You see, I'm glad it's not just me that sees this as a plethora of puns just waiting to be cut in half, loaded on a truck, and moved to the country.

I'll take the low road, while you take?

I'm giving your suggestion serious consideration at this point...

Keep on truckin'

Those beers had bloody better be on the house.

Sorry.

Or maybe it was CERA? Crane Evacuating Residents Abode.

All is not lost: the Dunsandel Store/Cafe sells a decent pie.

I hope it all goes very, very smoothly, David et al. The weather gods look as though they will be kind to you for the next few?

Glad to see positive progress, best wishes for the next phase.

so that's where it is

This is a song for the move. Not completely about moving a house, but this band is capable of moving the house and the song has Crane Driver in the title so that?s good enough by me. One of my favourite bands. Needs to be played really loud.
ELBOW,?

Just as well you don't have to put the milk bottles out tonight.

The funny thing is, I only recently realised that Brigitte Unwin runs Piko. Brigitte and I were good friends way back in the day in?

Weren't they great live?

I think Grace Under Pressure would be appropriate for the Haywoods too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk-RpmmL4Es

The roof driving off, being driven, down the road on its lonesome will be a "cute" sight. I am assuming you will be reusing it.

Best wishes.

Hell, yes! Not leaving anything for Gerry Brownlee.

Thank you everyone for all the very kind and supportive messages. I'm exhausted already (worked until past?

Always excellent to hear from one of the other Dr Haywoods!

Alas that the forecast is for rain this weekend — I'm just hoping that they're wrong.

What a time to have no roof on one's house.?

I also gotta say that I'm detecting in our learned author's words evidence of some incipient-but-severe man-crushes. It's the old-world charm of actual, real manual competence,?

Watching the twitter feed is a bit like watching The Wages of Fear (or Sorcerer if you are of a more 80s Synth bent)

Sometimes ? extremely occaisionally ? I kick myself for not being on Twitter?

meantime, I keep floating good thoughts out there for the Haywards-

That thing was out on the main drag= no.

And many thanks e Emma!

@Emma = Yay at the movers. Folks here see house moving as an amusingly alien concept.

It's pretty focken exciting, isn't it?

So when does the roof go back on? And do you have a big tarp?

Did I read the tweet correct, 80 kph house?

Shamelessly acquired from Coley Tangerina's tumblr.

You're too polite to say it outright, Dr Haywood, but your observation of my character over the last 43 years (and your two-year superiority in age) has enabled you to make a spot-on diagnosis. I am indeed ?one who duns; a dunner.??

Moving house, literally

I thought... house sailing down SH1 at 80kph. Not the $80k to move.

Heh

He know we are all so damn curious to know his progress that we will damn well come down and look for ourselves ... at which point we'll be given shovels and told to dig?

P.S. Bart, you are invited any time! Although, as you rightly surmise, you will at some point (when you least expect it) be handed a shovel...

...and oh what a septic tank hole he'll have at the end!
:- )

Ahh words. From the mouths of babes. Poor Gerry. You know David, in other belief systems it amounts to child abuse if your children are taught to call others of lesser rank naughty names.

Is Roger serious that he was?

Great to see Roger Sutton commit to actual solutions right away with none of the stuffing around we've seen from so many others in positions of power.

St Rog rather shot hisself in the foot by saying the last time he (Cera?) had heard from David Haywood was in September last year. It is difficult to believe that Mr Sutton?

You will have to dive into the archives back to when the Hay, Haywoods were travelling and blogging. It is a pleasure to read. :)

It would be a great historical record to attach to the house.

"There's only been about 50 people approaching us wanting to move their houses".

So one has managed to do it by share bloodymindedness (I mean that in a nice way), what about the other 49? Clearly bringing the camera helped get the message across.

It is a marvelous?

It's pretty hard to believe. But he looked genuinely moved. Who would not be? The initiative and hard work of David and Jen can't be ignored, and they've managed a real solution. There's?

Like a House... boom boom.

I thought the reason the our Gerry took over the whole kaboodle was, expressly, to reduce unnecessary red tape, well that's what we were told. I suppose then ther must be some other reason for Mr. Blownree to be in?

Keeping up with the Jonestowns...
Chchch [[http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/6892055/Assets-eyed-in-revival-of-city?comment_msg=posted#post_comment|Council assets are back in?

Herer's the standard link to the story before you posted your comment. :)

How is it even humanly possible for it to look this good already?

Were the Saints involved?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ksn0h7nzyw&feature=related

Did you ever doubt they would Deborah :). I mean David is an engineer (apparently hard hearted too) so perfect solar gain positioning would have been high on the agenda.

So tree planting?

coppicing was mentioned, I recall

Has no-one taught the lad to say "twonkface" yet?! I am appalled. :-)

Good Closeup item! So thrilled for the Hay-Haywoods that your house has been put together again and looks so nice!

I really hope Sutton's?

Indeed. And an orchard. A big one.

The section is perfect for the house sunwise. The front door faces the road. The big bay window faces north. All exactly as it ws in Avonside, except in Avonside, the property to the north side had subsequently?

Same. I'm just glad to see anyone commit to acting right away.

I thought covenants were a private thing. That is, the seller sells the land but with conditions on it's use. Hence Sutton can't do much about them.

It's a pity there was no developer smart enough to target those who wanted to move houses. They could have set up?

I thought that was one of the problems the HayHaywoods had when looking for land? I thought it was really difficult in the city, which was why they ended up farther afield. Then again, my thinking can be pie in the sky {?

So true. CERA would quickly encounter legal resistance if they now tried unpicking hundreds of private legal contracts. And which parties do we reckon Fieldmarshall Brownlee would go in to bat for?

Vita Cochran wrote:

Can you move the apple tree too? Or take a graft of it, best apples ever? Good?

Don't bother. Apples are predominantly outcrossing and extremely heterozygous. In English that means every single seed you plant will produce a completely different tree with different fruit ranging from tiny crab apples to fleshy big red spheres. And the trees will have completely different growth?

He's a busy man – lunch with Gerry pretty much writes off the whole day.

Thanks. Eric is right to link this to the overall housing market, but his neoliberal ideology doesn't take him far enough. He settles for the fixation of Hugh Pavletich, the late Owen McShane and other fellow travellers on the notion that any?

...and we have 20 days?

Why bother. Yesterday CERA announced Boffa Miskell and others as responsible for the master planning of such locations in the next couple of months.?

Interesting. Co-location with school-based hubs has a lot to recommend it. However, this is bound to be a PPP under this government's thinking, so money will be siphoned away from actually providing services. And the contracts will make it very expensive for any future governments to?

I have children at a school that runs from nursery, kindergarten, primary and secondary on the same site and it works?

The current regs work to screw poor people. There's lots of nice happy talk about green this and sprawl that, but the net effect of minimum lot sizes, mandatory low density, and tight urban limits is to push up lot prices.?

Biting the experimenters is always an option.

If you were rich, yes. All argued extensively at the time. No sign your thinking is going broad enough about the influence of differences in wealth and power. And if you persist in quacking like a silly neoliberal, what do you expect people to?

So let's hear some smart lobbying against those first two factors. Fixating on urban limits suits lazy developers who are comfortable only with single-storey greenfield sprawl. Combined with peak oil?

...then people probably would have panicked more than they were already, thinking the supply was about to run out. Those were horrible times, and even if someone was in a position to assure?

David Haywood says that if it helps more people ? then their hard-fought battle has been worthwhile?

I have it on good (the best) authority that David Haywood?

The medium has the message!

You may have been channelled?

All will be well this coming morning-