Posts by David Haywood
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Southerly: Things to be Grateful For: A…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Really envy Bob’s igloo, btw.
With the housing shortage in Christchurch we’re planning to rent it out. In fact, your envy has made us raise our original asking price.
SPECIFICATIONS: Suitable for a family of four. Refrigeration included at no extra cost: $450 per week. No vegetarians. Suitable for people who like the colour white.
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UPDATE: I have just added photographs of our post-lunch activities…
Sarah de Croy wrote:
I hope you’re all finding some way to stay warm.
Despite major damage I’ve managed to keep the central heating limping along. It’s been working at full capacity all day in an effort to counteract the leakage of cold air from the numerous cracks.
Geoff Lealand wrote:
Great use for a (very) chillybin. Next time you can borrow our toboggan.
Ooh, that sounds good. Mind you, not sure where we’ll be next time, alas.
Jolisa Gracewood wrote:
what gorgeous lines your house and garden have. Glad you are able to immortalise them in these images.
I wouldn’t normally put up photographs of our house. But since it’s (presumably) going to be bulldozed soon, I thought it was appropriate to capture its last big snow. What a lot of snow it must have seen in the last hundred years.
Greville Whittle wrote:
In other good news: Bob seems to have outgrown his resemblance to a certain ex-Act Leader from Epsom.
Something else to be grateful for!
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Southerly: Things to be Grateful For: A…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Chch, crack o’ dawn, no demolition happening
Wow, that’s some pretty photography, Joe! As opposed to my holiday snap talents…
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Southerly: Things to be Grateful For: A…, in reply to Graeme Haywood,
With snow still falling I'm wondering if you could bring your digger down here -- and shift a bit for us...
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Southerly: Things to be Grateful For: A…, in reply to Brent Jackson,
Careful planning! (And lots of snow still falling to cover my tracks).
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Bob is in seventh heaven about the snow. I was enjoying it until I read Lilith's comment and thought about another big earthquake + snow. That could be a bit of a crap combination.
Anyway, got to go make a sled...
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Thanks, Matthew. It was edited by the famous Philip Matthews – who did a very nice job indeed! And he's a very pleasant chap to deal with as well.
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Speaker: Sharks Dine Out on…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
And I say David Haywood for Mayor!
Oh God no...
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This seems to be Gerry Brownlee’s response to Mike Coleman’s piece:
I must say that I think the government’s proposed buy-out solution is great for the majority of people in the Red Zone. But it does leave a sizable minority of people (such as my family) in a pretty bad position. I’m still hopeful that things can be tweaked to produce a good solution for everyone.
The other end of the problem is moving people onto new land – and this seems to have a number of pitfalls that may need to be addressed (as Mike Coleman has identified). In particular, there really does need to be options for people who don’t want to live in Stepford-type battery-chicken suburbs in Rolleston. Hopefully by organizing ourselves into groups and negotiating with CERA and the council some good solutions can be reached. It would only be compounding the tragedy of the earthquake if they weren’t.
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Speaker: Sharks Dine Out on…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
On the other hand- collectives of even 10 or 20 families, with a nominated buyer or agent, would have significant money behind them.
I've just spent the afternoon in a meeting to attempt to set up just such a scheme. The idea is to try and save the heritage (circa 100 year old) houses in the Red Zone -- but the concept could easily be extended/adopted for newer houses/homeowners. More on this later...