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Rhinosaur wrote:

Fat Old Git wrote:

Rhinosaur wrote:Ha ha. Quite bizarre to see that my wife has made it on to PR via this thread!!

Almost bought The Coffee House in early 2000s.

You're supposed to quote the pic when making a statment like that!

Waiting for some phucker to ask if it's the dude playing putt putt!

Fat Old Git wrote:

Rhinosaur wrote:

Fat Old Git wrote:

Rhinosaur wrote:Ha ha. Quite bizarre to see that my wife has made it on to PR via this thread!!

Almost bought The Coffee House in early 2000s.

You're supposed to quote the pic when making a statment like that!

Waiting for some phucker to ask if it's the dude playing putt putt!

Well, is it the dude playing putt putt?

High, Hereford & Colombo Street corner - once referred to as the Bottle Neck! Leighs Construction are starting to rebuild on the Triangle Centre site

Hereford/Colombo Street Corner. You may remember this as the site where TSB Bank stood at the time of the earthquake.

Hoptoberfest is nearly upon us

Fat Old Git wrote:

Hoptoberfest is nearly upon us

Being held at the Volstead. 60 beers to try. Mmmmmmmmmmm, beeeeer....

Fat Old Git wrote:She's a very nice girl. All the staff are nice to be fair.

Kiwias wrote:

Fat Old Git wrote:She's a very nice girl. All the staff are nice to be fair.

The ones at our cabal were all really great

eugenius wrote:

Kiwias wrote:

Fat Old Git wrote:She's a very nice girl. All the staff are nice to be fair.

The ones at our cabal were all really great

Nice generation that .

There's alot of it about.

J Man wrote:What's the latest on any potential permanent stadium?

Fat Old Git wrote:Looks like the new stadium could be as long as 8 years away.

So this could be it until then.

How long the temporary rugby stadium at Addington remains in play rests on the outcome of negotiations between the Government and the city council, says Christchurch Stadium Trust chairman Jim Anderton.

Anderton fronted up to the Christchurch City Council this morning to plead for a $2 million loan.

The cash is needed so the trust, which administers the stadium, can buy rather than lease the stadium's tiered seating.

Buying the seating will save the trust around $700,000 a year, money it can then use to upgrade and improve the stadium so it can remain in use beyond 2017.

Without the loan the stadium maybe forced to close - potentially leaving Christchurch without a stadium for professional sport - as it is only breaking even and there is no spare cash to pay for work needed to extend the life of the stadium.

"You have to decide whether you want a stadium there after 2017 and if you do, then some assistance is going to be required,'' Anderton told councillors.

It was planned that Christchurch would have a new permanent stadium by 2017, as outlined in the central city recovery blueprint, but the scheduled date for completion has now been pushed out to 2019.

That date may be delayed further due to financial challenges facing the council, but that will depend on the outcome of negotiations between the council and the Government.

The Christchurch Stadium Trust is working on the premise the stadium may be needed until 2022.

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Taken from the Ferrymead Bridge

Terrace Station in Hororata

Christchurch has become the city with the most Cranes in NZ. 31 are here then it's Auckland with 26, Hamilton with seven, Wellington with six, four in Queenstown and one each in Dunedin and Tauranga.

Fat Old Git wrote: