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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Lilith __,
Goodoh.
And,
with regret & heartache,
byebye.
Because- one thing the hideous powers-that-are- didnt factor in, was the enourmous amount of goodwill __overseas CHCH people were initially ready to mobilise__was killed, stonedead, by the fuckshit government planning.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Islander,
May I reiterate my post?
A very large number of born&bred Chchch people are NOT returning to the place.
For very good reasons. Especially because of the known city hierarchical culture*, and the perception that the place has been taken over – with the OldBoys’Network on a whole new rightwing level- for the advantage of their Own-*It is literally intrinsic to the place-
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to merc,
ut my time spent in the south is always refreshing and wonderful, even the weird times and every place has those.
I’m Southern, and was born & brought up in ChCh – as were my 5 siblings.
I think it understandable – given the OldBoys’networks and general snobbishness of the place -NONE of us now live there – and, while some of us (not me) own properties in ChCh, NONE of us intend living back there.We live is Aus – we live south (well, my mother & a sibling & his family, and most of my Kai Tahu & Orkney rellies do – and I will be, shortly!)
As well as the good, there was – and still is – a helluva lot wrong with ChChCh, and the latest shennigans emphasize this. -
Capture: The Night Time Is The Right Time, in reply to Islander,
Ooohh- just as a possibly necessary addendum to all my foregoing: when a person I love and/or admire dies, they join the host of those I have known/loved/admired (and they are many...)
Which is why I tend to takiaue-
on the other hand, the host of those I despise/loathe ®uard as damaging to the planet and all life, including humanity, seems - alarmingly! - to grow daily... -
Capture: The Night Time Is The Right Time, in reply to Nora Leggs,
What a diverse and quickly shifting thread! From Axe-idents to Appendicments to Laugh-his-arse-off to memorial, memory, music and tears on the pillow – hope everyone has their body parts and hearts intact this morning : )
And where else but on PAS?
Thanks also for the rose…
And, that was supposed to be be
“E Power Biggs playing the basspedal harpsichord "-and goodness! Could he get rythym & great sound out of that thing! -
Capture: The Night Time Is The Right Time, in reply to Islander,
Then, we follow it by Pachelbel-
and then the entire disc of Hirirni & Richard playing takiaue ( especially an extempore one made here)
and then we just cry to sleep-
(not a bad thing provided the bed doesnt get wet.)
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Capture: The Night Time Is The Right Time, in reply to Islander,
"The Great Crush Collusion March"...
and almost of all the stuff that verystrange fraught composer played & wrote...Pine Apple rag going at the moment.... -
Capture: The Night Time Is The Right Time, in reply to Hebe,
O Hebe!
Could I, would I!
My mate David Alexander has already got photograpic stuff to replay…and I am very sure, will be recording other material.
MM was one of the very few people(outside of family) who ignored my spines and bristling and just went for the person-to-person hug…miss her personally? Immensely. Read her books, for self and all the lots of young people? Will continue!****Been asked to bring over “Memory” for one of my oldest family in Dunedin. Who heard me rave about it a decade ago and has, aue, since had her mother die, Alzheimerz-ed-
Margaret was deeply, intrinsically herself – and of here- Aotearoan to the marrow
loved her-
O, as long as I last-am playing my celebration/mourning music- Scott Joplin's piano music (Phillip Dyson.) (It's best by E Power Biggs on the bass organ - but aue! that record has gone...)
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Capture: The Night Time Is The Right Time, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Fuck o dear!
Entirely out of hospitals – one of my brothers left high school at 17 to be a fencing contractor (our uncle Bill had already taught him the game.) One of his early clients was a waddling low-country Canterbury farmer who knew everything
-how to dig post hole how to place posts etcetcect-
he volunteered to show my brother how to do it-
and, as my brother puts it, “While demonstrating, his arse fell out.”
As his GP wife (of much later on) interpreted, “He had a bowel prolapse?”
“Nah. His arse fell out. And we only had a section of fencing & 2 posts to carry
him out on.”
Pause.
“And the bugger never paid us.” -
Capture: The Night Time Is The Right Time, in reply to Lilith __,
I think the “view from the foot of the bed” is often more traumatising than being in it.
Indeedy!
Been in hospital once, with a suspected appendicitis attack.
Released myself next morning (because it was 31 Aug afterall!) & hitched back to big O.
But o dear goodness! When one of my nevvies was badly smashed up in a no-fault motorbike accident, it was phonetrees and family rushing in from all over the motu and nerves stretched from here to Tuesday for weeks....And so- thus - for other family hospital stuff...I hope to continue my extremely low-key hospital presence until dead. Once is enough eh?