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Continue reading →: Flower Bazaar on Innes Road
Today I had the delight of discovering Flower Bazaar on Innes Road (406 Innes Road). From the outside it looks like your typical florist shop stocked with beautiful flowers and pretty nick nacks, but then Ian showed me their wonderful garden out the back. It’s quite a beautiful eclectic space…
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Continue reading →: Agapanthus starting to Bloom
So pretty… I had to stop while out on my walk to snap this Agapanthus.
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Continue reading →: The Twelve Days of Christchurch
A very Christchurch themed ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’. As seen on the NG Building on Madras Street.
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Continue reading →: Faces from the Collection Artwork
This vacant space on High Street has a reproduction of an artwork from the Christchurch Art Gallery by Tony Fomison – titled No!.
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Continue reading →: 2/4 Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (2/4 RNZIR) Charter ParadeThe 2/4 Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment of the New Zealand army, marched through the streets of Christchurch today. This regiment was responsible for manning the cordons of the red zone, and this was the first time they were back on the streets since the cordon was lifted. I…
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Continue reading →: New Bench Seating by the Cathedral JunctionI’m not sure when this bench seat was installed – it’s quite new to me. It has large planter pots at either end, so it looks like eventually a couple of trees with go at either end. Magnolia trees would be nice – and there are already a couple planted…
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Continue reading →: Old CCC Building on Tuam Street
They’ve started demolishing the old CCC Building on Tuam Street.
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Continue reading →: Mannequin Workout
One of the more peculiar things about post-earthquake Christchurch, is the number of stores that are closed but which have displays still in them – or like this store on Colombo Street, a whole bunch of mannequins that look to me like they are having a group training session. It’s…
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Continue reading →: Protect our Beaches Sand Art by Peter DonnellyThere was a Greenpeace event at New Brighton beach today and part of the event was Peter Donnelly creating a sand art about the risks of deep sea oil drilling.
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Continue reading →: Road Cone Chess on Tuam Street
These road cones are being put to good use at the Telogis Concept Christchurch on Tuam Street. It’s by Jamie Munro and the cones are on loan from Fulton Hogan. It can’t be too long before someone in Christchurch writes a book entitled “101 surprising uses for a road cone”.…








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