A few pictures from last weekend, walking about in the hills above our house.
It’s great – a 40 minute walk from front door brings you up here… One of the challenging things post-quake has been finding outlets for energy.. a lot of the tracks are dangerous with rock-fall hazards etc. ChCh is getting back on its feet though – which is great… but it is slow work.
This weekend just gone, Maaike and I flew up to Wellington to see Glynn & Jayne, and also the Irish comedian Dylan Moran. He was definitely funny – though I had less gut-wrenching laughs than I have had with others. I think this might have been down to the acoustics of the theatre (he talks very quickly), and I was also expecting more topical / political humour. Still, an excellent excellent evening. In a parallel dimension, I would love to be a standup comedian. I think.
Oh, Maaike and I also went for a walk above Wellington. I love that you can be right up with a good view in literally minutes walk from the city centre. Wellington really is a nice city, even if she is sitting on a time-bomb (big overdue quake!).
It was lovely seeing Glynn & Jayne. Their daughter Isla isn’t getting any smaller, or quieter. Which is all right and proper for a 1 1/2 year old. Does bring it home the sacrifices one makes from *not* being in Ireland. That said, I read the Irish papers daily, and while I’m sure it’s not as bad as the papers make out, I’m still quite happy to be in New Zealand, and not in a country which must be going through such a harsh transition. I think I’d take earthquakes over mountains of debt any day.
Still, we do have houses like this all over the place. Which is less than ideal.
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