Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: The greening of the Red Zone, in reply to Russell Brown,
I was quite struck by how important the trees are, big and small.
The trees all around town have been my touchstones all through. Amazing how few have succumbed when so much of the man-made world disappeared. Something something Thoreau...
It’s odd how the houses are removed then the blank spaces are sowed in grass. I don’t know what else could have been done but 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.
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PS Nice photos Russell.
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Hard News: The greening of the Red Zone, in reply to Sacha,
Wow. It really does look like the country.
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. (Some are flatter, more windswept and bleak because of exposure to the winds and the changes in groundwater levels.)
I was there last Tuesday, meandering back to town from a trip to the doctor. It was a stunning warm day and I thought "I'd really like to live round here". Odd given everything - but maybe if the house was self-contained with a composting toilet, PV, rainwater harvesting, and was on shakeproof high piles it would work.
I am intrigued with the possibilities for the river red zone. It is an enormous sweep that now connects the built city with the coast and the estuary. I hope much of it becomes a wildlife reserve and recreation area with the possibility of alleviating the flooding and land subsidence in the rest of Christchurch.
Food forests, allotments, rowing courses, so many ideas.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Christchurch,…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
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.
Till last night I'd never thought the late 70s/early 80s music days in Chch were in any way noteworthy. It was weird and kind of affirming to meet them again at a talk organised by the Christchurch Art Gallery and have Russell talk about people on the other side of the world who rate it highly enough to collect the records and ephemera.
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Wow; the fireworks and the photos!
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Summer’s flowers: Greg planted a sunflower forest at the front of the house, and to our surprise the monarchs love sunflowers, as do the praying mantis.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Christchurch,…, in reply to Russell Brown,
yer actual psycho skinhead.
They could be surprisingly chivalrous. Had one in Welly who for an unknown-to-me reason appointed himself my protector (and I was inhabiting a completely different world). Often when trouble arrived this feared bootboy seemed to appear out of the dark, grumbling volcanically and suggesting to the perp that they might like to toddle off and have a cup of tea. Was very grateful for this more than once. Never was a price to pay; in fact he would vanish afterwards.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Christchurch,…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Didn’t even hurt.
Cor! What sort of hair gel were you using for that effect?
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Hard News: To defame and deflect, in reply to Dean Wallis,
“GCSB does not spy directly on NZers”.
Nah; reciprocal agreement with Australia. They do us, we do them. Sorted.
I must be alone in not getting excited about all this: only the detail is new, and what else would Waihopai have been doing? Business as usual.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Christchurch,…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Pu-lll down the Shand's?
