Ruth Gardner's Blog 17/04/2013: Hanging Hearts
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 17 April 2013 entitled, "Hanging Hearts".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 17 April 2013 entitled, "Hanging Hearts".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 26 February 2013 entitled, "Popular Port-a-loos".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 12 June 2013 entitled, "Public Poem".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 14 April 2013 entitled, "Restart Rhyme".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 14 June 2011 entitled, "'My' Magazine".
A photograph captioned, "It's weird, it's very random. There were some beautiful houses here and now they are gone".
A photograph showing the damaged streetscape of Dallington, following the series of earthquakes in Christchurch.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 03 February 2014 entitled, "Lunch at the Library?".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 21 January 2014 entitled, "Silly Sign".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 22 December 2013 entitled, "Santa's Slipping".
A photograph captioned, "They're fixing other places first. People over the other side of town are getting their houses fixed. We wonder why".
Caption reads: "No, I don’t think they deliver the mail everyday. Not anymore."
A photograph captioned, "So it's been an eventful couple of years. I think the first earthquake, it was just so totally unexpected. You went to bed one night and when you woke up - in just a few seconds- everything was different than it had been before".
A photograph captioned, "I miss living here, right by the river. I'd been there for quite a long time, 12 years or so. I realize now I took it for granted a bit. I used to get a bit bored with having a big old house that was cold, difficult to clean, and perhaps hard to keep warm. But now, when I go back there, I miss living in a big house by the river with an open fire and a big lounge and everything. I had the park there on the other side of the river. And there was a little bridge down there where you could walk over to it. There was actually a circuit you could do, up to the New Brighton Bridge and back. Yeah, it was beautiful".
A photograph captioned, "Lovely big weeds, they're pretty aren't they. Amongst all this".
A photograph captioned, "It feels like it has been a really on-going process. We weren't in the head space for it really, because when you retire, you think you're in your retirement home and you're there to stay. You don't expect to have to move on. To do all this".
A photograph captioned, "We went to Nigel's place for breakfast and stayed for three months".
A photograph captioned, "In the 1930s the traffic in Gayhurst Road was so light that I can remember playing hockey and cricket with apple boxes for wickets. If a car or cart came along there was plenty of time to shift the boxes to let them past".
A photograph captioned, "My daughter grew up in this house. She's 10 now. She is going to miss it - and Dallington. It's where she's grown up, what she knows. She'll miss it alright. Me too".
Caption reads: "Yeah yeah, I know, but you’ve got to look. It’s incredible what’s happened to these places. It’s not something you see everyday and once it’s gone, it’s gone forever."
Caption reads: "You can’t do a thing about it but I can’t be bothered going house hunting. I’ll just live each day as best I can. I keep thinking it could change again. The dust here doesn’t bother me, the noise doesn’t bother me. When they start pulling down houses the vibrations don’t bother me. Nothing bothers me. We’re all like that. That’s how you have to be when you can’t do a thing about it."
Caption reads: "At the moment we’re trying to carry on like everything is normal. It’s not easy. It’s hard sometimes to remember what things were like before the earthquake."
An electronic copy of an account prepared by Trisha Ventom, IHC Self Advocacy Coordinator Southern Region, describing the processes put in place by IHC Advocacy following the Christchurch Earthquakes in 2011.
A photograph showing the damaged streetscape of Dallington, following the series of earthquakes in Christchurch.
A digital photograph in PDF format. Image taken from within the Horseshoe Lake Reserve, of the local wildlife.
A digital photograph in PDF format with caption. Image looking East, on Kingsford St. Memorial Day remembrance flowers, on the side of the street.
A digital photograph in PDF format with caption, of two spectators watching a Red Zoned home be demolished. Image looking south-west.
A digital photograph in PDF format with caption, of a Red Zoned home that sits right on the edge of the Horseshoe Lake reserve. Looking North.
A photograph captioned, "Nobody’s trained for this, you go to your lawyer and they can’t give you an answer because they've never faced this before, so yeah, even they are scratching around trying to find out".
Caption reads: "It used to be lovely. We would go out walking all the time and we always went through the wetlands. There was all the beautiful flax and bushes that were around the track, and now it’s gone. All gone."