St Elvis's Day

he thing about 4 September being such a significant date for Christchurch is that these days I forget that only a week later is a significant anniversary for my American friends.  It’s the 12th here, which of course makes it the 11th for you, and the anniversary of that horrible horrible day.  Remembering 22 February…

Looking back

eading back through my blog posts today to pick out the earthquake-related ones was more affecting than I expected.  Even though I spending my working days looking at photographs and reading peoples’ memories from the quakes, I’d forgotten just how scary they were.  I think because I wasn’t hugely affected by them in any material…

Decision made

ell, my diary is officially about to go public. I’ve signed off on the paperwork to officially donate it to the archive, and started the process today of sorting out which entries are actually earthquake-related and converting them to a format that can be archived. It’ll be a few weeks before it actually appears on…

Four

ot as big a deal as 22 February, but 4 September is still a significant date for Christchurch – the day of the 2010 earthquake that was the start of all the chaos and horror to come (GeoNet announced this morning that they’ve recorded 14859 earthquakes in Canterbury since that first one, 4558 of them…

Augustness

ll of a sudden, August is almost over, which means in a couple of days it’ll be officially Spring. And, more importantly, it means I’ve only got a couple of days to finish my second butterfly, because the deadline for challenge entries is on Sunday night. I haven’t really had any time to work on…

Tohoku 2011

oday was almost entirely filled with meetings. One was a very interesting meeting though – we were visited by a researcher from Tokyo, who is studying the experiences of disabled people in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, so has come to Christchurch to compare our situation with Tohoku’s. The Tohoku earthquake was only a…

Music from the past

he International Film Festival is on at the moment, so I went last night to see one of the films on offer, Pulp: a Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets, a documentary about Pulp’s last concert, in their home town of Sheffield. As well as being a great documentary (made by a NZ film-maker – it…

Dilemma

ne of the projects I’ve been running at work is building a collection of earthquake-related blog posts from various Christchurch bloggers, to help show the way that the earthquakes impacted on everyone’s lives in some way.  All part of the archive’s aim of telling the story of the human side of the earthquakes through as…

Wastage

ell, so much for all the things I kept telling myself I’d do as soon as I was finished with studying for the year.  All that time when I had no time for anything but work and study, I was so looking forward to having the time to read real books, and do massive craft…

2013 in review

ickens had it right: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.  It seems like every year lately I’ve summed up the year as being full of horrible stuff interspersed with some pretty good stuff, and expressed the hope that next year can only get better.  And yep, once again there’s…