Ōtautahi / Christchurch Daily Photo

I don’t know about you but I think there’s nothing better than catching up with friends for a drink on a sunny evening after work. Tonight my friend Rachael and I went to One Bar at the Palms. It was a beautiful evening to sit outside enjoying a little glass of something and…

I’m never sure if this is rata or pohutukawa – as I always believed we didn’t get pohutukawa in Canterbury – and the tree I photographed does not look ‘stemmy’ like the pohutukawa trees I see in Wellington (it’s quite bushy and compact). Whatever it actually is, it’s beautiful. I…

This mural on the bridge at the Lyttelton Port depicts the early settlers arriving in Canterbury in 1850. I’d never really noticed the mural before, but a building has come down beside the bridge so it’s now quite visible. I recently discovered that my great-great-grandfather James William Tourell (or it…

House demolitions around the hill suburbs are starting to be an all too familiar sight. There have been a few demolished in our neighbourhood already, but as the work of taking down the CBD buildings becomes less intensive it seems residential buildings are now coming down at a much faster…

You can see this door at the Re-Start city mall – I think the building was the Lichfield car parking building. The door has a warning on it about being heavy. Wonder if on the other side it has a warning about the long drop below?

Spotted on Ferrymead Park Drive – someone has dumped an old Lazy Boy chair (at least I think it’s a Lazy Boy). Guess they couldn’t spare the 8 bucks it would have cost to dump it properly.

I spotted this plaque on the concrete wall beside the Christchurch Art Gallery on Montreal Street.  I’m not sure if this is part of an exhibit or is totally random. I’ve only just noticed it so have no idea how long it has been there either.