Just a brief post to say that we're ok. I was with my sister-in-law in a shop upstairs in Riccarton Mall when it hit, and I have to say it wasn't an entirely pleasurable experience. But we're ok, and back home safely. And deeply impressed with how well everyone behaved - plenty of fear, but …
Poetry Day 2011 – Reading in Dunedin
Hooray, I'm coming back to Dunedin for a Reading! (And working very hard to resist the urge to play around with the rhyming possibilities of the phrase …) Details below and in the sidebar, and you are most welcome to print off a copy of the poster for your own use, whatever that might be: …
Still here
And another one, and it felt big. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for everyone in the city, because I think we're looking at serious damage. Again. Still. First time I've been outside and looking back at the house when one happened – our upstairs moves at a different tempo to the downstairs, which is freaky. …
One month on – film from the CBD
It's exactly four weeks since the earthquake. I'm not going to offer anything today, other than the following video. It was shot by/for Civil Defense, and screened at Friday’s memorial service. It shows what the centre of Christchurch looks like now – no-one except the emergency crews and media have seen this part of the city …
Tuesday Poem – “Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son”
Three things there be that prosper up apace And flourish, whilst they grow asunder far, But on a day, they meet all in one place, And when they meet, they one another mar; And they be these: the wood, the weed, the wag. The wood is that which makes the gallow tree; The weed is …
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