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  A Family's Experience Inside A Haunted House With A Dark History Is The Inspiration of A New Paranormal Activity Themed Documentary.
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “christchurch”

 

• Misty Morning

  
  Ruth's Reflections — Authority: 135
  When I got up yesterday morning everything was covered in mist.  At 8am it was only just starting to lift. Mist lifting n Latimer Square I heard that 18 flights had been delayed and one cancelled.  This morning I’m heading for Hamilton, with fingers crossed for no mist and no delays. “I would be in a ...
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• Transitional Christchurch – in Auckland

  
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  Christchurch: A Transitional City Part IV is that rather fabulous looking book bound in brown paper. It documents Christchurch’s transitional projects, street art, and pop-ups. Architectural designer Barnaby Bennett presented the session. I found it difficult, not because of anything lacking in him but because ...
  5 days ago

• Christchurch – this week in history (20 May – 26 May)

  
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  May 20, 1861 Gold discovered in Gabriels Gully, Otago. As with other discoveries, the ensuing gold rush depleted the city of its more adventurous young men. May 21, 1866 City Council abandons the vital city drainage scheme because of its financial state. A huge shipment of pipes which had just arrived from ...
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• Sidewalk Sandwich

  
  Ruth's Reflections — Authority: 135
  “Mood Sandwich” is the title for this large outdoor artwork on Lichfield Street. Mood Sandwich Part of the ‘Populate’ exhibition to mark our Art Gallery’s tenth birthday, it’s by photographer Yvonne Todd, who is renowned for making images “so wrong,they’re right”.  On the left there’s a ...
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• New Urban Village Proposal / Zotov & Co

  
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  Almost demolished after the earthquake in 2011, Christchurch center was required a renovation. The challenge for architects Zotov & Co was to recall a livable city center. After asking the question of what is needed to be happy, the architects chose nature and communication as the foundation of their concept. ...
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• Christchurch w/ Hussien

  
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  been feeling stress/ upset for no apparent reasons. when i go through my thoughts theres nothing worth stressing about. the only solution i can find to it is s l e e p zzz.. anyhow, lucky me went to CHC when the weather is at its best (IMO) w/ Hussien. even our rooms were opposite each other x a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Christchurch mental health initiative better than “all right”

  
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  Seeing images of the extent of the devastation wrecked by the earthquakes on Christchurch was depressing. I couldn’t even imagine how life must be for the people who had to work and raise their families in such tough conditions. So it’s great to see bright splashes of colour with the positive message of caring and ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Bicycle Band: Picturing Canterbury

  
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  The Bicycle Band of 1898 claimed to be the only one of its type in the world. There was a brief recreation in 2010 at the Ellerslie Flower Show. In NZ Music Month why not check out some mighty Kiwi Brass bands from our libraries. NZOnScreen reminds us how much brass bands and highland pipe bands provided the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Free Book Friday – Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans

  
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  This week’s Free Book Friday is Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans . As if being tiny and also having S.Horten as your name isn’t bad enough, ten-year-old Stuart Horten is moved (by his very clever, but not very sensible parents) to Beeton, far away from all his friends. But in Beeton starts the ...
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• [General] GCSN Newsletter – 9 May 2013

  
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  For my Kiwi readers… GCSN Newsletter – 9 May 2013 The Ministry of Education, in the interim, has indicated that its current contract with the Greater Christchurch Schools Network will conclude at the end of June.  We are investigating a number alternative modes of operation to enable us to continue supporting ...
  2 weeks ago

• We appreciate your appreciation! The Gladstone

  
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  Saturday night at the DB Gladstone – ah, those were the days. The dingy old pub with cracked stucco walls, peeling paint and the stench of beer seeping from its pores slouched next to its corporate neighbours on the corner of Peterborough and Durham Streets and sneered at their clean concrete exteriors. In ...
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• Its a numbers game Aaron, and you dont have the numbers

  
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  Aaron Gilmore should know that politics is all about numbers. He fell 5,334 votes short of Labours Liane Dalziel in the Christchurch East electorate in 2011. And at #54 on Nationals party list in 2011, he failed to get back in to Parliament. He finally returned from the wilderness in February when Lockwood Smith ...
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• I Heart My City: Kate’s Christchurch

  
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  When travel blogger Kate Voyage  isn’t   scouring the globe for adventure (and sharing her findings on her personal website and on Twitter @30Traveler ), this Kiwi turns her attention to the home front. “Christchurch has all the big city conveniences,” she says, “but with fewer traffic jams.” She also ...
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• The Temple for Christchurch

  
  Burning Blog — Authority: 130
  Temple for Christchurch conceptual rendering A temple is being built in Christchurch, New Zealand, commemorating the magnitude 6.3 earthquake that devastated that city in February 2011, killing 185 people. Inspired by the ritual of Burning Man’s temples, and a recipient of a 2012 Black Rock Arts Foundation grant ...
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• LEAKED: Andrew Riches’ TXT conversation with Aaron Gilmore

  
  Whale Oil Beef Hooked | A blog by Cameron Slater — Authority: 143
   Newstalk ZB published this just moments ago (For those needing a cast list, Andrew Riches is the Christchurch lawyer that was present at the Hanmer restaurant, and I guess I better explain who Aaron Gilmore is, because he keeps asking people “Do you know who I am?”.  He’s the Clown of Christchurch East) ...
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• “Licensed dealers in game” and the Parker-Hulme connection: Dennis Bros: 1902

  
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  Dennis Bros has an interesting Parker-Hulme murder connection: By 1936, Honora Parker and Herbert Rieper had moved to Christchurch, NZ, living as husband and wife on Mathesons Road in the Phillipstown area of the city, described as “industrial” by Glamuzina and Laurie, but in many respects it seems to have ...
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• Populate! and Pointing

  
  Ruth's Reflections — Authority: 135
  This new sculpture, part of the Christchurch Art Gallery’s Populate! programme, has appeared on top of the old Post Office building on the corner of Tuam and High Street. Comin’ Down It’s titled “Comin’ Down” and is a three dimensional replica of the artist, Ronnie van Hout.  The head is looking ...
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• Big rise in numbers of Kiwis accessing internet on the move

  
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  MORE than half of New Zealanders are now accessing the Internet via a mobile phone, according to Statistics New Zealand. The total number of mobile broadband users increased by 34 per cent at the end of 2012 to more than 2.5 million. “Smartphone use is rising quickly, and people are increasingly connecting to the ...
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• Christchurch – this week in history (6 May – 12 May)

  
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  May 6, 1939 New Municipal Electricity Department building opens. May 7, 1917 Canterbury Aviation Company makes first flights from Sockburn Aerodrome, New Zealand’s first airport. May 8, 1945 V.E. (Victory in Europe) day celebrations. May 8, 1975 New Zealand’s first mini roundabout in operation at the ...
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• Winner of the Andy Griffiths Writing Challenge

  
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  Thanks to everyone who entered our Andy Griffiths Writing Challenge last week.  You all wrote some wonderful stories, poems and lists and we loved reading them. The winner of the Typo prize pack and a copy of Andy Griffiths’ book, Once Upon a Slime, is Ben Somers.  We loved all the wonderful and creepy things ...
  2 weeks ago

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