The Avon Pine Sanitorium was established in 1904 on Professor Alexander William Bickerton's (1842-1929) land at Wainoni Park for fee-paying tubercular patients who were treated by the open-air method. It was formally opened by Sir Joseph Ward (1856-1930), then Minister of Public Health, and was under the charge of Dr. Cecil Greenwood (b. 1860/1861). Do…
Tick, tock: Timepieces of Christchurch
Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend (clocks back one hour on Sunday morning, folks) and while changing the time on various clocks and watches around the house can be a chore, it must surely be less hassle than having to change the time on a floral clock or a clock tower? So here's to the…
Love, loss, and Las Vegas glitter: All the beautiful girls
Fresh out of the box this week is All the Beautiful Girls. This great story is the second novel from Elizabeth J. Church, author of The Atomic Weight of Love. Lily Dekker has had a difficult start to life. Wrenched from idyllic surroundings by a cataclysmic car crash, her family "dissolve(d) like sugar in iced tea". She…
Easter Parade 2018
Firstly, some important Easter essentials: Libraries Library Easter hours: All libraries are closed on Good Friday 30 March and Easter Monday 2 April, but open as normal on Saturday 31 March and Sunday 1 April. The only exception is Linwood Library, which isn't open on Easter Sunday. Also note there is a scheduled outage on…
QEII Park: Past, present, and future
Do you remember the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch? I do. I was on holidays and watched John Walker setting records on the track, while next door in the same complex, the Canadians and the Australians collected medals in the pool. My husband and his brother were in Christchurch and when they could, they caught…
Win tickets to the NZSO Mozart & Mahler concert
Music lovers, take note! The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's 2018 season continues next month with a concert featuring works by Mozart and Mahler on Wednesday 11 April at Horncastle Arena. International piano duo Christina and Michelle Naughton will perform Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos. The other piece performed for this concert will be Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony…
An Easter music egg-stravaganza!
Easter approaches and you find yourself with some extra time for contemplation, relaxation, and resetting your spiritual clock. How best to do this?? Personally I find music the best avenue for transcendental experiences so I have created a list of different options to share, for your ears, eyes, and souls! And here it is... An…
The house of Edwin Trent (1839-1883) on his chicory farm at Templeton: Picturing Canterbury
The house of Edwin Trent (1839-1883) on his chicory farm at Templeton [ca. 1875]. Trent was the first person to grow and process chicory in Australasia. He was known for supervising his workers by watching them through a telescope from up in the tower. The house was demolished in 1968. His farm is now the…
Haere ra Raumati, Kia ora Ngahuru: The change of season in children’s books
As the mother of a preschooler, one thing I've noticed is how much small children respond to learning about topics that they can see reflected in their day to day life. Whether it's seeing a picture of a tuna (eel) or a duck (both creatures we've fed on the Avon River), or stories about diggers…
Five Easter feast ideas
It's always seemed strange to me, to use lots of pastel colours with baby chicks and bunnies at Easter, because for us it is a turning point in our year, when weather gets cooler and we know we're in for the long haul of winter. Here's a few ideas to celebrate Easter minus the pastel…
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