OT: CBDs Was: Re: [LMB] Re: Lois-Bujold Digest, Vol 15, Issue 118

[Katrina Allis]

On 01/09/06, Elizabeth Holden <azurite at rogers.com> wrote:
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>
> --- Katrina Allis <k.m.allis at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Wellington isn't having very good luck lately.  If
> > it isn't raining, it's windy.  If it is raining,
> > it's windy.  If it isn't windy or raining, water
> > gets into the gas mains, causing leaks and traffic
> > chaos.
>
> Is this a recent phenomenon? Or has it always been
> this way, and has just become worse?


The gas thing - first time ever that I know of.

This winter has been unusually bad.  The South Island got it in the first
half of the winter with enough snow to cut of power to a number of people
for a while, and the North Island in the second half of the winter with snow
(Desert Road and other high hill country) and flooding (practically
everywhere else).  However, Wellington is known for wind, although the last
week or so has been suprrisingly not windy.  I kinda like the wind.

Of course, it's the first day of spring today (is it the first day of spring
or the equinox that's the Daughter's Day?), which means things are going to
be interesting.

Although come summer, I shall be entertained by Wellingtonians (including
myself) walking around in summer clothes, carrying a coat.  Because if you
don't, you will want one.

But I get your point about a CBD being conceptial rather than physical.  It
just happens that in NZ, most CBDs are both.  But then, a lot of our CBDs
are by the water, because harbour access was really important in colonial
times, and it was easy for things to grow up there.

*shrugs*

Katrina

-- 
> I have CDO.  It's like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, only in alphabetical
> order as it should be.
>
> Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was
> putting one foot in front of the other.  Moving all the same.
> Lois McMaster Bujold, _Curse of Chalion_