This week was fairly lazy as they go, well, didn’t get away for the weekend, but I suppose that’s needed once in a while. Monday was funny, – see I recently changed my squash clubs when I moved house, and on Monday a league match came up against my former team… there was an amount of slagging ;) but all fun.
I guess the highlight of the week was heading to Lyttelton (which is like a small seaside village over the Port Hills (the hills just by ChCh). It’s really close, yet feels like it’s far away, has its own chilled out atmosphere, cool place. The reason to go there was to see a travelling Scottish / Irish music band play. There were pretty good really, though I have been quite spoiled by great Irish music back home. I think some of the best evenings I’ve ever had was in a place called the Cobalt Café, which is on North Great Georges Street. My friend Caoimhin O Reilleigh (excuse the spelling) organised them. Comhluadar is the website, but doesn’t look like it’s been updated in years. Probably ‘cos Caoimhin is now in Co. Clare (Miltown Malbay I think) learning to make Uilleann Pipes. But yes, there were a couple of evenings in the café, listening to a piper and fiddler playing, having a bottle of red by the fire.. Yes, those were great evenings. So I’m slightly prejudiced now when I hear other players. I think I might try to get back in contact when I come back to Ireland and see if it would be possible to get those evenings running again, it was amazing.
So that was Thursday. Saturday I went out to the Super Shed, which is a great place. When you go to the dump here you dump by weight.. So here they have a setup, where if what you are throwing out could still be of use – books, furniture, crockery, sports gear, garden stuff etc. etc. that you can bring it to the Super Shed for free, and they’ll sell the stuff on, thereby reducing waste (through reuse) and making a little money for the council.
Here you can see hundreds of pairs of skis… I dunno if they’re safe or not, but you can pick up a pair fo $8…. So that’s kinda cool. So, for the princely sum of five dollars I managed to pick up a table, lamp and bin!. I mean you can’t really complain about that. The table is fine – not a wobble anywhere in sight!
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