Extreme recycling
February 2, 2025
Colombo Street Clutter
A real pleasure to work with Habitus Group again, this time to capture a behind the scenes look at one of the most unique site clearances in Christchurch. 102 Colombo Street was known to many as the most cluttered home in Canterbury. The property was purchased by Habitus for the development of six new sustainable homes. But before they could start any new builds on the site they had to deal with the old and what job! The original house was almost buried in material collected over decades; everything from old cars and tyres, wood piles and bric a brac. It was a salvage, sort, dump or recycle job that lasted a full six weeks. Unbelievable, Check out the Habitus link above.
https://habitusgroup.co.nz/showcase
There are important lessons here for those watching New Zealand's own homegrown platforms which are taxpayer supported through NZ on Air. Whether freeview or payview, what are we actually seeing and why? what are we actually paying for and why? Are we simply paying millions to subsidise commercially fragile kiwi media platforms or are we paying to ensure a future for kiwi made factual content? These questions are particularly relevant as the government considers new funding models for both film and television.
No mistake, bowls is a highly competitive game, you need only watch the experienced players to see how seriously they take each delivery. But as a newbie my chance of falling anywhere close to the jack is more accident than design. But that’s not a bad thing as my reason for taking up bowls is stress relief than success.
While, like anyone I like to win, it’s the psychological break from the incessant buzz of the world that has really drawn me to the game. It’s been suggested that when they were handing out adhd diagnoses I was probably near the front of the queue, while I’m not sure that I would agree, I’m happy to acknowledge that bowls is a salve for the restless mind.