Are you having trouble being motivated to do your New Year's resolutions? Maybe you're doing too much. Maybe your resolutions are all wrong. This year I don't feel I need to do more - but actually need to do less or at least do it more efficiently. Do you feel this way too? Here's some…
Holiday fun at the Learning Centres
Successful holiday programmes at South and Upper Riccarton had many happy children tasting new technologies and having lots of fun. Clay animation – children created fun clay characters for their animated stories. Family Games Fun – online, board and action games were great challenges for all. Whizz Bang Pop – lots of fun iPad story…
Sandcastles in the Sand
Summer is well and truly here so grab your bucket and spade…and spray bottle, masonry trowel, spatula, and books on sandcastle building and get down to the beach because you could carve out a sand sculpture at the Fourth New Zealand Sandcastle Competition! The competition is being held at New Brighton beach (right by New Brighton Library) on Saturday…
1915 – a brief guide to the wider war
Looking beyond Gallipoli, an awful lot was happening in 1915. On the Western Front a number of major engagements took place throughout the year. The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, fought in March and April, was the first planned British offensive of the war. The attack had some initial success but ran out of steam. Beginning…
Lyttelton SummerFest
Lyttelton SummerFest is a ten-day festival that kicks off on Waitangi Day with the latest incarnation of the popular One Love festival: One Love Waitangi Day Sound System at Albion Square. One of the big events for families is The Big Pirate Picnic Beach Party: The beloved Natural Magic Pirate Band will entertain including "Lyttelton's Got Talent"…
Tell you what – Read this book
Last night there was an event at Scorpio Books in Christchurch to launch Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction, 2015. It was a bit of a homecoming - the origin of this book was co-editor Jolisa Gracewood in Connecticut observing Christchurch after the September 2010 earthquake. Her eagle eye took note of some great…
Time to vote on Halswell library, pool and community facility’s new name
Thanks for all your excellent suggestions on a name for the new library, pool and community facility in Halswell. We now have a shortlist. You can vote for one of these six options: The All’s Well Centre Community Spirit The Halswell Centre Halswell Manawa (manawa to mean heart) Heart of Halswell The Well You can…
Heaven knows I’m miserable now – The Morrissey autobiography
Morrissey is one of the most provocative and polarizing musical personalities there is – He’s idolized with a cult following. Many seem to loathe him. And many (like me), like and dislike him at the same time. Morrissey has a ‘rep' for winding people up with his inflammatory statements and no one is excluded from…
Te Kupu o te Wiki – The Word of the Week
Kia ora. To celebrate Te Reo Māori we are publishing kupu (words). Kīwaha (colloquialism) He huaparaunoa pack of lies Kupu (word) Poihakena Sydney He taone nui a Poihakena. Sydney is a big city! Previous Te Kupu o te reo Māori posts. Browse our Te Reo Māori resources…
This week in Christchurch history (26 January to 1 February)
26 January 1883 New Zealand Shipping Company begins direct steam service to the United Kingdom. 27 January 1860 Writer Samuel Butler arrives at Lyttelton on “Roman Emperor”. He is best remembered for the novels Erewhon, published after his return to England several years later, and The Way of All Flesh, which was published a year…
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