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Tag Archives: christchurch
City of the Gaps
Before I left New Zealand, in 2010, I picked up a bunch of souvenir-type things – you know, paua earrings, keyrings with sheep on them, that sort of thing – to give to people in America. Most got given away … Continue reading
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Type A
Tonight’s our last night in New Zealand, and we spent the day doing a bus tour of the Christchurch CBD Red ZoneĀ and driving around the eastern suburbs, of which more in another blog post, because it was frankly too emotionally … Continue reading
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Presentations
This was going to be the week I blogged about my recent acquisition of my genotype, but my brain has been well and truly fried by giving my first departmental seminar this morning, so that’s going to have to wait … Continue reading
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Remembering
I was going to do a brief precis of the weekend we just spent in New York doing Tourist Stuff (very brief precis: sore feet, reasonable minimum of tacky souvenirs, a million photographs, success!) and then I remembered that February … Continue reading
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In Hindsight
2011 was, overall, a year the like of which we will not see again soon. I know most of my friends in New Zealand couldn’t wait to see the end of it. For various reasons, a lot of people I … Continue reading
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Recovery
We got power back last Tuesday evening, just as I was eating a cold dinner by candlelight (the combination of the noises I made when the power returned and the sudden appearance of light everywhere sent the cat under the … Continue reading
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Fall
It’s officially fallĀ autumn dammit autumn here in New England, now the autumn equinox has been and gone. I was interested to discover the other day that I am not the only one who thinks the American season-marking system is a … Continue reading
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After The Storm
Irene turned out to be something of a bust for large parts of the Pioneer Valley, and especially for us – we woke up last Sunday morning to heavy rain and occasionally gusty wind, but that was it. By the … Continue reading
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One Year On
A year ago last Friday, I was sitting in Christchurch Cathedral, listening to Helen Clark give a talk about development in the third world. It was three days before I was due to get on a plane and leave New … Continue reading
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Where I’m From
I think perhaps the hardest part of dealing with the ongoing earthquakes in Christchurch, over here, is that you can’t really talk to people about it. The Monday aftershocks got a one-line mention on the morning news, but overseas natural … Continue reading
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