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Thursday, 22 December 2005 (New Zealand) - I do love the carnage!

Another shot of Elmo, my cockatiel. He comes out every night for a few hours, flies around, craps on everything and everyone, eats your food, and attacks the plants - gotta love 'em :)		Nothing major happened today. Caught up with a couple of mates, saw more of the city I left behind nearly a year ago, and watched Joey (my greyhound) race at Addington Raceway and get an unenergetic 7th after he won rather impressively last week. I think my $5 bet jinxed him. Then I found this scene on my way home tonight - spot the truck head-first in the trees next to the road!
This is State Highway 1 just north of Christchurch at a notorious bend, made worse by the fact it's also a T-intersection. I've both seen and heard of many fatalities along this stretch. A year ago while coming home after work at 6am in the pissing rain I found the aftermath of what happens when you pull out in front of a truck doing 100km/h. I think a similar thing happened here. It turns out this accident happened five hours earlier, and involved a 4WD with four people in it that was nowhere to be seen by this stage (but I saw a picture of it in the paper - it was totally fucked but no fatalities).
After a large amount of pissing around (because the tow trucks couldn't get grip on the wet grass) the truck was eventually pulled out of the bank, revealing another munched-up front - my second in two days. Loving that carnage! (Yeah I know - there's something not right with me).

Friday, 23 December 2005 (New Zealand)

This has always been one of my favourite road signs hahaha! That was me exactly four weeks ago (except it wasn't the fault of tram tracks).		Speaking of trams, here's one of them. As you can see, it's the restaurant one :)
The weather's really bombed out for me over the last couple of days. Even the seagulls were curling up.		Despite the weather, any day is a good day for a bomb threat (I felt like I was back in Brisbane!). I got wind of this one from my police scanner.
Four major city intersections surrounding the Arts Centre were cordoned off and all surrounding buildings were evacuated. While here I heard an almighty echoing bang that sounded as though it was some distance away. I have no idea what it was but somebody later called the cops from their home around 3kms away from this reporting an explosion that shook their house.
Several patrons at the Dux de Lux bar (popular spot for after-work drinkies) were loving the action - the cops on the other hand were not; this lot got told to piss off back to where they came from hehe. Check out the custom paint job on the van haha - classic Kiwi!

As soon as this weather improves I'll take some shots of something other than just cops and carnage so I can show my home city off to you dickheads back in Brisbane who get your kicks by giving it a hard-time, but in the meantime - it's cops and carnage! ;)

Saturday, 24 December 2005 (New Zealand)

Panorama of Christchurch by night, taken from the Port Hills looking north. It's much prettier in person :)
Found this on my way up the hills to take the panorama above. A Subaru Legacy GT, driven too fast around a sharp corner, smacked into the hillside and this was the result - ouch! Both the driver and passenger walked away unhurt.
Bugger! Didn't even need the police scanner for this one ;)

Sunday, 25 December 2005 (New Zealand) - Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, kiddies!

Monday, 26 December 2005 (New Zealand)

The Christchurch Botanic Gardens, located to the west of the city centre.
A few things you can do involving the Avon River: a) If you're rich, Punting on the Avon. Sit in a punt and let some poor bastard standing on the back of it lug your lazy arse up and down the river. 2) If you're poor, hire a canoe from the Antigua Boat Sheds, and do it yourself. d) If it's late and you're on your way home after boozing it up in town, piss in it from one of the many bridges that cross it while saying "Ahhh yeah, that's better!".		Fountain in the Gardens with the Arts Centre buildings in the background.
I heard about this on the police scanner on my way into the Gardens, about 1km away at the top of Riccarton Road. Apparently a car full of wiggers (honkies trying to be black) rear-ended a car full of people who actually were black and took great exception to their vehicle being arse-ended, and suddenly it was on! A large physical altercation broke out in the middle of one of Christchurch's busiest roads hahaha - too bad I wasn't there to see that! ;)		Woodend Beach, looking south towards the Port Hills.
Panorama of the front of my home. By the way, there is actually lawn between the house and the overgrown paddocks ;)

Tuesday, 27 December 2005 (New Zealand)

These two shots, along with the panorama below, are of the same house which won a national competition for the best residential Christmas lights. I wouldn't mind a dollar for every minute it took to put all this up!				This effort impressed me too :)

Wednesday, 28 December 2005 (New Zealand)

The Christchurch Cathedral and Chalice in Cathedral Square. The Chalice is meant to celebrate the new millennium and the 150th anniversary of the founding of Christchurch and Canterbury (the province in which Christchurch is located), but from memory all it did was piss a lot of people off hehe.		This guy calls himself Mr. Moon, and has been hanging around the Square for as long as I can remember. He juggles his balls and hoons around the Sqaure on his unicycle, providing great amusement for the tourists. Just another friendly Christchurch face :)
Oversized chess game. I heard somebody did a runner with one of the pieces once hahaha! That'd look good in the living room.		Upon first glance I thought somebody had been skittled by the tram, but it turns out some chick just fell off it at the tram stop hehe, doh!
Cashel Mall, Christchurch's equivalent to Brisbane's Queen Street Mall :)		Bank of the Avon River as it winds through town along Oxford Terrace.
The New Brighton Pier. It was opened 1 November 1997, is 300 metres in length, and always has a lot of smelly Asians fishing off the end of it.
More often than not it's always really windy at Brighton, and this guy was screaming along the beach taking full advantage of it hehe.		View from the pier looking northwest.

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