Tag Archives: christchurch

Spring Garden

Posted on 10 January, 2012 by Louise

As all Christchurch residents know, Labour weekend is the time to begin planting your vegetable garden.  Here are a few shots of our spring vege garden.  It looks very different now so I will do an update post shortly. Corn … Continue reading →

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Beach visit

Posted on 6 January, 2012 by Louise

We’ve been enjoying visiting the beach at Spencerville where some friends of ours live. It is a very quiet beach with not many people and the water quality is excellent unlike at many other Christchurch beaches (especially since the earthquakes). … Continue reading →

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Reality and Earthquakes – Walking out of the Christchurch CBD

Posted on 5 April, 2011 by Kris

It took a while for the crane operators to free everyone from the 9th floor and make their way up to the 17th floor where we were waiting. When the basket arrived at our floor, I was standing on the … Continue reading →

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Reality and Earthquakes – Rescue from Forsyth Barr House

Posted on 2 April, 2011 by Kris

Once we had shifted to the 17th floor, people broke up into a few different groups in different places. Some people preferred to sit in one of the rooms in the centre of the floor. Some people focussed on cleaning … Continue reading →

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Reality and Earthquakes – Waiting for Rescue

Posted on 14 March, 2011 by Kris

Writing my last post, I had forgotten about the building sirens that had helpfully been blaring in our own building since the earthquake struck.  At the time, they were loud and annoying. We already knew we needed to evacuate, so … Continue reading →

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Reality and Earthquakes – Trapped in the Forsyth Barr building

Posted on 10 March, 2011 by Kris

In my last post, I described how we discovered we could not evacuate the Forsyth Barr building. When we realised we were trapped, we went back out into one of the larger rooms.  By this time, people from the 16th … Continue reading →

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Reality and Earthquakes

Posted on 9 March, 2011 by Kris

Tuesday, 22 February 2011 was a stressful day. I woke up feeling stressed about the work I needed to get done that day. Two weeks later, most of that work still hasn’t been touched. Louise has already written of her … Continue reading →

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Devastation in our beautiful garden city

Posted on 26 February, 2011 by Louise

It is hard to imagine life ever being normal again. On Tuesday at 12.51pm another huge earthquake, measuring 6.3 on the richter scale, struck Christchurch – this time bringing devastation and destruction far worse than we could have imagined. I … Continue reading →

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Lo these are parts of His ways …

Posted on 17 April, 2010 by Kris

… but how little a portion is heard of Him. Today we took the family on a visit to the Canterbury Museum. The children were very interested in the various exhibits, asking lots of questions about what they saw and … Continue reading →

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We might as well be living in a different country

Posted on 22 November, 2009 by Louise

Sometimes I feel that we might as well be living in a different country rather than stuck in Christchurch far away from family.  Of course Katrina (my sister and only sibling) is in a different country (Australia) so that doesn’t … Continue reading →

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