yeah Lyttelton got whacked alright.
This is just down the road (next village) from where I lived as a tween-teenager. North Canterbury mostly got off pretty lightly at that point. The church in Lyttelton where my father was vicar well before I was born did not fare so well (I think it was wooden).
🛳️🗣️ Haere mai, join us at Lyttelton Coffee Company for open kōrero about the cruise industry. 🙋♀️We will have speakers, entertainment and Q+A with an expert panel. 📅 Friday 11th October 6-8pm 📍 Lyttelton Coffee Co, 29 London Street, Lyttelton #cruise#cruiseship#climatejustice#lyttelton
even ōtautahi christchurch gets a new ferry while the new zealand government refuses to admit that the cook strait ferries are falling to pieceseven ōtautahi christchurch gets a new ferry while the new zealand government refuses to admit that the cook strait ferries are falling to pieces
![screenshot from an email from Metro eCan letting people know that there's a new ferry for Diamond Harbour
New Metro Diamond Harbour ferry
[there's a photo here of the new small ferry that seats around 20 people i think. it's silver with a light blue stripe down the side. at the front of the vessel in white all caps lettering it says 'Black Pearl. it has a small radar on the roof. it is moored at the jetty at the Diamond Bay end of the route. behind it is some various green foliage and trees. the water is a kind of teal colour.]
Have you spotted our new ferry on the waters of Lyttelton Harbour/ Whakaraupō or Diamond Harbour/Waipapa?
The new Metro ferry, Black Pearl, started operating this month and we are so excited!
Two events marked the addition of our new vessel, including one on Friday 13th September with officials.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:pqusgg62f2lkh3lvg6ntpryr/bafkreicv2enw5rv7jq6xhhelt4t4tdwepmyki72xwhtvtljoduiwy4dv7m@jpeg)
Stephen Sondheim’s last musical, Here We Are, is set to make its UK debut at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton Theatre in 2025. With a book by David Ives and direction by Joe Mantello, the show runs from 23 April to 28 June.
1. 'Here We Are' in the Lyttelton, April-June next year. 2. Revival of 'London Road' next June in the Olivier. That sound you can hear in the background is my credit card screaming.
Rosamund Pike will make her debut at London’s National Theatre with Inter Alia, a new work by Suzie Miller, the playwright who created Prima Facie.
New Zealand Labour Party, 1933: "Lyttelton by-election. What every elector should know. The truth about unemployment; Government's policy responsible for wide-spread distress." Eph-B-NZ-LABOUR-1933-01 National Library of New Zealand.
One of these things is not like the other. The one on the left is wrong. It’s actually windy - which is correct but raining heavily. No sign of sun.
I’ll be 50 in a couple of years. I cherish the words of the late great Humphrey Lyttelton “As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from desiccation.”
