Posts by Hebe
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I'm all shades of southern envy.
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Nina in full gallop at her beach last summer.
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Bloody marvellous feelgood reading. I'm in awe of everyone involved. That is a huge and wonderful place for your family to be. Congratulations.
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Food: always the cookbooks, ever since I was a child, I have read cookbooks. I like writerly cookbooks, like Nigel Slater, Elizabeth David for their love and knowledge of food and ability to spin yarn. My best cookbooks have pictures, roughly one for each recipe but not always (because I'm never going to cook most of it you understand).
I hope each book will open up new ways of cooking, more method then prescriptive; a new way to eat. This year The Green Kitchen (aka Vegetarian Everyday in the US) by David Frenkiel and Luise Vindahl changed our family meals for the better and inspired me to move past the older Moosewood-style of meat-free. The book was lovely: the right size (not too big not too small), tactile paper, photography that looked great without being overly clever.
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Hard News: We're in this together, in reply to JacksonP,
And Capture: thank you for Capture Jackson in this year where I didn't contribute much or even comment but appreciated it all mightily.
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Hard News: We're in this together, in reply to Sacha,
Likewise, it has been good getting our writing out there where others can add to it. I have always appreciated this community’s supportive yet challenging nature. Tribute to its curator.
Thanks Sacha to you for Access, help, support, and for your patience.
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You and Public Address and its peoples make this world more interesting, intelligent and fun. What a great thing!
Many, many thanks to you for providing a platform for the Christchurch quake rants of so many of us. It has made a difference, in tangible ways. Your 1am Twitter invitation for Greg to write about watching the floodwaters rise in the muntlands in March kickstarted a chain of events.
Many requests were made for republication in major metro papers and small newsletters. Endless Christchurch people (the latest just this week) stopped Greg in the street, the park, the supermarket, saying that the piece lessened their feeling of overwhelmed isolation.
TV news and newspapers like the New Zealand Herald picked up on the problems the floodites were and are facing, meaning the national attention put pressure on the government and the city council to come up with help for the worst-affected, especially when we had three flood events in three months. Things like accommodation subsidy were gained (those flooded and unable to live in their houses were not eligible for the earthquake subsidy until mid-year and had to pay both mortgage and rent. Many were in severe financial difficulty.)
Council consultation with the community about what had happened, and possible area-wide solutions, was fast-tracked and extended to cover not only the Flockton Basin but areas like the Heathcote River catchment through Woolston, St Martins, Opawa and Beckenham where hundreds of houses were flooded or affected by sewage-infested river water.
Solutions are still some way off, but they are being worked upon – and some measures are working. Flockton has an interim pumping station. A working flood warning system is in place. Better systems all round for dealing with this huge effect of the earthquakes: the loss of height of land and uplift of riverbeds.
In practical terms, Russell, and the Public Address community’s support has helped make all our lives easier. Isn’t that what a true community is about?
Thank you all. Wishing you a fine and fab summer.
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2014: #dirtypolitics, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
While a turducken is delightful in theory, I suspect it would just be my grandfather’s insistence on buying a Christmas ham the size of a small dog all over again.
Lol. My sons were obsessed with turducken for years: one that works down in size from a swan, goose, turkey to a seagull or somesuch. Eight or ten birds inside each other. A Very Creosote Christmas.
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2014: #dirtypolitics, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Suddenly I see a massive flaw in the doctrine.
Dangle a tinned duck in front of a comrade and they always cross over.
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Cool. Party at Gio's, him being a Marxist and wanting to redistribute everything. Cunning, Brown, cunning.
