Nov 6, 2011

The new temporary city mall has been open in Christchurch now for a week. Buildings damaged in the earthquake have been demolished and replaced with cargo containers to create a new, temporary, Cashel Mall. I visited the mall yesterday and was quite impressed with what they have done. The cargo containers have been nicely converted, brightly painted and...

Nov 1, 2011

Just a quick post to say that NZ Raw recently received its 100,000th view! Woohoo! I once read a great piece of advice – celebrate every victory. With that in mind and in the spirit of writing, I figured I’d write another blog post! I’m quite proud of that statistic although it’s quite a messy one as statistics go. Mainly because this...

Oct 28, 2011

The official trailer for the Christchurch earthquake movie has been released on YouTube. The film is called ‘When a City Falls’ and has had over 30,000 views in just a few days. Created by Christchurch-based Frank Film, directed by award winning film maker, Gerard Smyth, and produced by Alice Shannon, the documentary movie is likely to be well...

Sep 10, 2011

I love Stuff.co.nz. It’s a great source of news but mainly I love them because they’re the only New Zealand news source that have bothered to put together a mobile phone app, for both Android and iPhone. It’s a pretty good one at that – I always start my day by reading through the news on my phone while lying in bed. For me it’s the...

Aug 15, 2011

Jump to update for Tuesday 16th August -> As was forecast, we’ve woken up to a fair bit of snow again. At this stage it does seem to be a bit more snow than in July. Already I have 15 to 16 cms of snow in my driveway and it’s still coming down. It’s at that great powdery stage at the moment where it crunches underfoot and you can walk...

Aug 14, 2011

As Christchurch prepares for yet another icy blast – one that is supposed to be colder and last longer than the snow that we had back in July (more pics on the photos page) – many people are heading to supermarkets and corner stores to stock up on food supplies. Perhaps not such as bad idea seeing as Civil Defence are warning that people have have to...