Festivus: 2013 in pictures: December

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Hillmorton Fair, including art exhibition

Luscious Christchurch sunset

Edgeware lady in a bath

Jesus on Colombo Street

Chris Heaphy’s Whare in Cathedral Square grows and blooms apace

Parties

The Tannery at Woolston

Demolition / rebuild

Linwood

Christmas

Going East: 2013 in pictures: November

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A change of office for me has meant a change of scenery.

Linwood

I now head to work east – I’d call it Linwood but postcode finder calls it Woolston. My new walking route takes me close to the Avon River, whichever way I go. And in places – like here, down on Whitmore Street – it is beautiful.

Stanmore Road

Here is the Richmond workingmens’ club being demolished.

Avonside Drive

Clearances are underway, and in some cases done.

Linwood Avenue

A phoenix and the Basilica?

Town

The city still draws me in. I like to check out what is happening. I was in town for a meeting on Friday 8 November and spotted that Lichfield Street had re-opened – that stretch between Colombo and Manchester Street.

The famous mannequins of Frontrunner.

The new Strange’s building takes shape.

Christchurch City Libraries has a page on the history of Strange’s.

And more views of town: Old Millers/CCC on Tuam Street.

I find the wildflowers on the corner in Latimer Square so beautiful. Nature does it best.

And the Whare in Cathedral Square by Chris Heaphy also uses flowers and plants to mitigate against greyness and demolition.

Armistice Day wreaths.

Open Day at the historic Colombo Street bridge. SCIRT explained the repairs and did a great job involving the kids.

St Albans

Keeping it local – St Albans School Market Saturday 9 November.

Abberley Park.

Baby shower!

Other stuff

Kinder surprise Star Wars and New World miniature fun.

The art of nature, and the nature of art: 2013 in pictures: October

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Arty farty about town

High Street

The things you see when you’re out and about

Whanau

Copthorne

The Edgeware Art House demolition

O Nature, you gorgeous eye boggler you

The shapes of rebuild

Nature Play Park

FESTA

The strange beauties of Christchurch: 2013 in pictures: September

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The most beautiful day

Sunday 8 September – the Temple for Christchurch before the sun comes up, and South Brighton to greet the day on the beach.

Beautiful oddities

The golden morning glow of the old CCC/Millers on Tuam Street.

Bryce Galloway.

Edgeware’s Art House

Oil spots on Oxford Terrace.

The Roman baths of Price Waterhouse Coopers on Armagh Street

Demolition mountain.

The wires of Torrens House on Hereford Street.

Looking down from the Ibis stairwell.

A Gorilla perfume that smells of booze and smoke and Leonard Cohen.

A garden grows in Cathedral Square

Kate Sheppard Memorial

Bishopdale

Post storm …

Kindy

Copthorne demolition

Bookarama and Christchurch Writers Festival at the Arts Festival

Goodbye to the Central Library on Gloucester Street

Reach for the lazers and the sky: 2013 in pictures: August

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Art city

Shand’s emporium

We go to town

Demolition and repair and rebuild

The first daffodil of Spring is the one that sees itself in the mirror

Birds

Signs of the times

Funny stuff

Whanau catchups

The streets are where you find poetry, protest and art: 2013 in pictures: July

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Words

Big and small, sometimes fragmented – always words and signs and signifiers.

Mark Sommerset at Central Library Tuam.

The cordons come down

Cathedral Square.

Working – human scale

Heritage

McLeans Mansion on Manchester Street.

The Bridge of Remembrance.

Art

New on Welles Street.

The wolf skull’s last howl, Kilmore Street. On Trainor McLean building, now demolished. Turns out it is a company called ALC Apparel – also spotted a tiki on Tuam, and pinup ladies.

Faux Arcadia by Michaela Cox.

Home ground by Paul McLachlan (exhibition at 241 Chambers)

Demolitions and rebuilds

GCSB Protest

Splendid random

Busking Pink Floyd. Sounded exquisite.

My man Captain Cook, the morning moon – and Get Lucky on my headphones.

Into Sockburn, into the burger.

Daffodils springing up in the Lichfield Street carpark building.

The Gloucester Street reading room.

St Albans Park, boggy.

Flowers on Colombo Street, Beckenham.

Victoria Street, beautification.

The Colombo Street building humper.

Snow, broccoli pizza, and great-great-great-great grannies: 2013 in pictures: June

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Forced perspective.

I didn’t have my lovely G11 camera this month, so most of these photos are shot on my phone.

This is us. I like our slight insectiness.

Pass the parcel at the Pallet Pavilion.

Edgeware witticism.

Gangnam cuzzies.

My great, great-great, great-great-great, great-great-great-great grandmothers.

And then me, Mum, Junior & great-grannies.

Mall ratbag.

Nick Caves vs Higgs Boson in Q magazine.

Snow yo.

NZ Post Children’s Book Awards.

Bus stop on Colombo Street.

New Winnie Bagoes on St Asaph Street.

Reflections in Rehua Marae.

Writers, artists, and Batman: 2013 in pictures: May

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The sea, the sky. New grungy grey art on Colombo Street.

Last days of the BNZ bank on Armagh Street.

Workers on Kilmore Street.

Sunrise.
By the Isaac Theatre Royal facade.

Looking over to Ronnie van Hout through the Exclesior facade on Manchester Street.

Odeon on Tuam Street.

Skateboardy park action in St Albans.

New Brighton.
Ferris wheel.

Burnt up art guy.

Beautiful lady.

New art in the Restart. Mike Hewson zushes up the Lichfield Street carpark.

“They removed the tussocks and filled in the ruts”.

Someone’s got their ID card for Monsters University. We took thesewhen we went to the Star Trek movie – my first time at the movies in four years.

Happy 10th birthday to the Christchurch Art Gallery.

Christchurch Art Gallery puts another bit of art up in the Restart.

Bishopdale Park.

Another demo on Manchester Street.

A new Cathedral Square walkway opens. This sign on the Government Life building carpark is especially poignant: “Unknown cars, unrecoverable, still extremly flooded”.

I was interviewed on tv walking through.

Sir Max Hastings and Sylvie Simmons for the Christchurch Writers Festival.

We get a sign.

Off to the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.

Sylvia Nasar.

A family portrait. And Batman.

Ups & downs & openings – bullshit and jellybeans: 2013 in pictures: April

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Sunset in St Albans.

Bullshit and Jellybeans – CPIT Library Edible book competition.

New parts of town open …
Demolition on High Street.

Workers zush up the streetscape as Colombo Street between Tuam and Hereford reopens.

Nail polishes still on their shelves.

Kindy market.

Stormtrooper on Tuam Street.

Art on a fence in Kilmore Street.

Sometimes the interplay of machinery and nature is heartbreakingly beautiful.

We love the Annisa Victoria Vintage markets at the Pallet Pavilion.

Manchester Street reopens.

High Street.

Edgeware paperback centre.

Armagh Courts demolition.

Clouds over the Government Life.

Mike Hewson art on Colombo Street.

Hearts for Christchurch.

The groovy chairs arrive on Gloucester Street.

New Regent Street reopens.

A porthole looking out onto Gloucester Street.

Another wiry infestation by Hotel So.

Public Trust Office, Oxford Terrace – where Mum and Dad met.

Losing myself in Reuben Patterson’s art.

Window on Hereford Street.

Superduper Autumn slide.

Bookarama.

ANZAC Day.

Art on Colombo Street.

A bit more of Cathedral Square opens up.

Decay and bloom – 2013 in pictures: March

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Memorials.

Easter.

Sunflowers. I’ve never seen such a clear white sky. This looks Photoshopped, but it isn’t.

My new begonia.

Off to Hanmer Springs.

Not the Hurunui News.

Pie.

Corvettes at Hanmer.

Hanmer Springs War Memorial Hall.

View on a demolition.

Poster remains on Bealey Avenue, and Lichfield Street.

Chop – Carlton Mill Road.

New buildings. Victoria Street and Armagh Street.

The life of the Avon.

Ronnie van Hout in the Art Box.

Flour Power.

Another Vintage Market at the Pallet Pavilion.

Colombo Street whirligigs.

Filigree trees.

My perfumes.

Deep times.

Ronald McDonald House fundraiser teams in the Re:START.

CBD Bar – Alchemist ale.

Emily Hartley-Skudder showhome art.

Christchurch City Libraries’ book sale.

Music pops up on Tuam Street.

Christchurch Art Gallery upstairs on High/Tuam Street.

Old CCC building on Tuam Street.

George’s 4th birthday.

Autumnal Abberley Park.

Ophelia cones.

Peterborough apartments.

Special! small – Cranmer Square signs.

Crapped out phone book.

Black cat, blue fence.