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Nov. 24 2009 - 8:30 pm | 13 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments

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Brill tram No 178 on the Christchurch Tramway

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Ladles and jelly spoons, deepest apologies, for we might be a tad intermittent, a touch irregular with posts over the next few days.

You see I fly this evening to spend a few days in Christchurch, which is where I was brought up, and where my delusions of grandeur must have began. Christchurch itself seems to me to be founded on delusions – or at the very least on a dream. An Edwardian reverie of distant England, remembered through a rose-tinted lens. And what, prey tell me, is wrong with that?

At sunset on a summer’s evening watching the punts drift down the River Avon, or sunrise in Hagley Park on a frosty day in Spring, it’s hard not to be taken in by the vision.

In any case, for the next few days I’ll be spending some time en famille in Christchurch, before flying back to wretched bloody Auckland for a night, and then at last I’m Beirut bound. À bientôt! I will post as and when I can for the next few days. Do try and behave yourselves in my absence.


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    Safe travels, JSH! Can’t wait to read about your new adventures.

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