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Yesterday was Christchurch’s 150th birthday, celebrating the anniversary of the day when it was declared to be a city (it was only a tiny village at the time, but Queen Victoria wanted to appoint someone bishop, and to have a bishop you need a cathedral, and cathedrals can only be built in cities. So she…

A couple of items of background: 1. In most of my incarnations on the internet, I use this avatar:[album 128913 FutureCat.jpg]I first found it in the avatar collection of a forum I occasionally visit under another guise (so I won’t mention the name of it here), so I’ve got no idea where it came from…

Saturday 23 October 2010, 7.30 am Sitting outside a little cafe having croissant and hot chocolate for breakfast – how cosmopolitan 🙂 Wombles had arranged to meet Awaywithfairies at the evil bookshop – which truly is evil – just standing outside it while we were waiting for her I somehow managed to buy a book!…

Ooh, drama next door – a fire engine pulled up a few minutes ago with lights flashing, and they went into the house with a hose. No sign of any smoke or anything, though, and there doesn’t seem to be any major sense of urgency about proceedings, so I assume it’s nothing major. I don’t…

(Yes, I’m finally getting round to writing up the rest of the trip…) The weather hadn’t improved greatly the next day, and the forecast wasn’t looking good for the southern part of the island, so Stepfather suggested we give Fiordland a miss and just head straight for Dunedin. But I argued that Fiordland is probably…

The next morning we packed up the tent again (“assisted” by the campsite’s resident cat which came to check us out and beg for breakfast) and headed for Dunedin. We were booked into a campsite in Portobello, so once we got down the bay we put up the tent and then headed down to Tairoa…