A few shots from our drive up the Pacific Highway today.
Along the Pacific coast
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Tag Archives: New Zealand
Waikato
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit
Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to eat: it was a hobbit-hole and that means comfort.
And here is a piece of prime hobbit real estate: Bag-End.
The tree on top of Bag-End is fake and was assembled by hand at the cost of around $800,000 – so we were informed:
Samwise Gamgee’s house, 1 Bagshot Row:
The Green Dragon where I had some stout:
If anyone is wondering what keeps the sheep out (there are a lot of sheep here), it is the electric fence:
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Off to Australia
I am going to be spending some time travelling in Australia and New Zealand, visiting family, friends and Hobbits.
Photographs to follow, Wi-Fi availability permitting.
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Anglicans call for….. you’ll never guess
Dialogue!
New Zealand’s Christ Church Cathedral was irreparably damaged by an earthquake and a diocesan synod motion proposes to knock it down and build “an inspirational cathedral on the current site to the glory of God”. The trouble is, the new structure will be made of inspirational cardboard.
Not everyone is happy about having a cardboard cathedral in the neighbourhood, so various clergy are proposing to have a conversation with the cardboardophobics. This invites a question: which will disintegrate first, the cardboard, institutional Anglicanism or the dialogue?
From here:
The Anglican Church will have a “comprehensive dialogue” with South Islanders on the future of Christ Church Cathedral.
About 300 clergy and lay representatives from the 71 parishes in the Anglican diocese met at a Christchurch synod on Saturday.
A motion was passed unanimously at the meeting to consult with people about the cathedral. The motion stated that the synod “undertakes a comprehensive dialogue process with the citizens of Christchurch, Canterbury, the West Coast and the city council towards determining the future of the city’s Anglican cathedral”.
The motion affirmed the decision that “Christ Church Cathedral will be deconstructed to a safe level”.
The Rev Mike Coleman proposed the section of the motion calling for dialogue.
