Like every part owner of a small business we are sitting anxiously wondering when the lock down will be over. It was instructive to listen to the Steven Moe’s interview with Shamubeel Eaqub about economics. This is a philosophical discussion about the real reasons for an economy. As I listened to … [Read more...]
Garry Writes 7 April 2020
This week’s notes are a mix of picking up thoughts, research and ideas in this strange time we are all in. I have Zoomed more in the past week than in the past months. I’ve even been involved in two really good Gin and Tonic sessions by Zoom. Fortunately they concluded before they became too … [Read more...]
Garry writes 31 March 2020
Pam and I have been in self-isolation for two weeks tomorrow. That’s because we arrived from Australia (on probably the last cheap flight we’ll ever experience) after the lock-down notice from the Government. When the “bubble” was announced we were joined by our daughter Rosie and for part of … [Read more...]
Poetry
Firstly, lets start with a poem which Sam Hunt used in an interview this week. It’s by James K Baxter: High Country WeatherAlone we are bornAnd die alone Yet see the red-gold cirrusover snow-mountain shine.Upon the upland road Ride easy, strangerSurrender to the skyYour heart of … [Read more...]
Garry writes 24 March
Last Monday morning Pam and I arrived home from Australia and now we are in splendid self-isolation. At a time like this we have to rely on each other to survive. In our penitentiary we have relied on family and friends to supply us with food and staple supplies. Like cream and biscuits. … [Read more...]
Garry writes 10 March 2020
I have changed the way I travel into town. Mostly I am on my bike, but occasionally I am in a vehicle. The newly constructed road into town supporting the massive growth in Waimakariri is about to disgorge its contents on Christchurch, in a new place. Where traffic engineers have long argued … [Read more...]
Garry writes 3 March 2020
I had a visitor from Auckland (remember the old North and South photos with a “visitor from Hawkes Bay”? Well this one was from Auckland) at our place over the weekend and they had just visited Turanga. They were waxing lyrical about how fabulous our Central Library is. They said they would like to … [Read more...]
Garry Writes 25 Feb
Yesterday was the first time since the earthquakes I hadn’t gone down to the corner of Medway Street and River Road, down at the side of the Avon for their Earthquake memorial ceremony. I’ve been there 8 times. Once I was the only one there as the event had been shifted to another site and I didn’t … [Read more...]
Garry Writes 18 Feb 2020
On Friday it was 40 years since I staggered, in a dazed state, out of Christchurch Women’s Hospital having witnessed a wondrous event in our extending family’s life. Our son, Johnny, had been born. As I emerged into the daylight, into a world which didn’t realise what a significant event had … [Read more...]
Garry begins the year…
A belated welcome to the New Year. The Tuesday Club for the past couple of years has stopped in early December and started again after Waitangi Day. That enables us to recharge our batteries and think about lofty things like bar-b-ques, novels which have no purpose other than to entertain us, … [Read more...]
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