But before you check out the images (which are all provided courtesy of Cumberland Courier Newspapers), I'd like to pay my respects to Christchurch. Last Tuesday it was struck by a huge earthquake. It's killed at least 150 people, and the count is still climbing. It's levelled hundreds of builings and rendered hundreds if not thousands more uninhabitable. It's affected people in the city, the region, the country and all across the world. I lived there for a for a few years and was only back there for a weekend visit a few weeks ago. It was - and deep down still is - a beautiful, if somewhat parochial city, and I'm amazed by the stories of heroism and survival that are making out of the ruins.
Ake ake kia kaha, Otautahi.
BTW - my website (http://www.chrismckeen.com.au/) is down indefinitely, so I'll be posting here in the short term future.
Chris
