Calm

With the Oyster Festival over with for 2012 (for the most part) I look forward to a little calm.  The phone should be a bit quieter and I might be able to go outside without taking the phone.

Hopefully I won’t be playing catch up with everything and can actually have a day that goes to plan (at least in part).  It’s been a long time since I planned and prepared a meal (except at the last minute).  I might even be able to go to playgroup on the odd occasion.  I don’t know how some mothers work and think it would be even harder to work from home without committing to and sticking to a schedule.

I will be able to commit more time to my local government interests.  I have some ongoing bugbears that I want to follow up on.  I have virtually ignored my Keep and Share website and the Yesteryear blog needs updating.   I have a reservoir picture I am piecing back together that I need to finish.  The family tree needs some serious attention (Te Au’s procreate at an astounding rate!) and I, in all my wisdom, put my hand up for helping keep another website up to date.  I am my own worst enemy BUT would prefer those things to scrubbing floors and doing dishes.  The irony – I’ve done dishes at someone else’s house and not my own today!

I am also tormented by the fact that the library’s online newspapers are online for three months which therefore means letters to the editor are still not available in the long term.

I’m starting to think I set myself up for a rude awakening and calm is probably not the right word!

 

Going To Be A Cracker Day!

We’ve had a little rain overnight and early this morning but not enough to dampen any spirits.  A gentle breeze with a coastal nip to it.  Other than a bit of cloud it’s looking to be a great day.  Considering we’re only a week away from the official start of Winter, we should count our blessings.  Being an atheist I’ll thank Mother Nature. 

My Head Is Going To Explode

There is so much going on (and I need to remember to take my meds – consistently) that I feel like my head will explode any minute.  Aside from local government issues there is a lot going on.  Needless to say there’s an Oyster Festival coming up and ICC decide that in the middle of the LTP consultation period they would raise Urban Renewal in Bluff.  We have lives and children and jobs you know!

Today we have a part of Bluff Hill being replanted thanks to what I hope will be many from Bluff and further afield.  Ideas relating to community development are  coursing through my brain as they (and now I’ve just flooded the kitchen because I forgot I had the sink filling ARRRGGGGHHH) where was I – coursing through my brain as they have done for many years.  I do not give credit to ICC for inspiring me but I thank them for giving me (and the rest of the community) and stick or two to smack them with.  Bluff needs…..and ICC have said they will assist the community…… I enjoy using their own words (and policies) to achieve…whatever.

On the local government front I have done my part and submitted and spoken to my council and await the result of the community voicing their views.  I wish I had more time to blog and source more information for my file sharing site.  Bob Simpson was kind enough to give me a copy of his oral submission to council to upload but unfortunately my scanner has died so I can’t scan it in.  If Bob could email me a copy I’d appreciate it (c.teau@woosh.co.nz) and that offer applies to all:-)  We have the Bluff Community Board meeting on Monday night, nothing of great interest that I have the time to comment on in it.  I do note that the LTP submission (must have been done in a workshop ARGH) has a request for ICC to allow use of the Senior Citizen’s/Town Hall garden/reserve to be used by the community.  I would hope the garden club and any others interested see the potential for that site.

Interesting times lie ahead.

Help Out Hawkes Bay

BayBuzz are trying to get councils in the bay to webcast their meetings.  Seeing and hearing what’s going in other councils is never a bad thing.

They include ways to submit or show your support.

Eirwen Was Wrong

Eirwen thought no-one would be interested in the full submissions, never under estimate the nosiness of people including those from outside the area.

The files are being read prolifically it seems.  Happy I could help.

LTP Submissions Ready

All done but some may take 5 minutes to download – deal with it.

If you’re having trouble and after a particular submission, let me know and I’ll pull it out and upload (or email) it separately.

Basic rundown is

File A = 6 page meeting notice…ho hum

File B = Pages 1-12 is what’s available on ICC site
Page 13 – 105 is Submissions 1-16 (partial)

File C = Remainder of submission 16 – What seems like part of 42 (148 pages total)

File D = Seems there is no remainder 42 (stopped suddenly I felt) – part of 45 page submission (number 88) from Mates Trust.  (They want 50% of $302K over ten years from the councils involved (collectively)

File E -Rest of Mates Trust – submission 126

File F – Rest of # 126 – 177

File G – The rest

Now I’m late cooking tea for the tea because I’m too busy helping out ungrateful bastards:-)  Oh, woe is me…

In My Hot Little Hands

Got the CD and South Alive’s submission is interesting, not a hell of a lot of residents involved in the management, lots of businesses and organisations.  I hope we see more residents get involved in the top level to make sure their needs are being met and not just doing the hard yards for the upper echelon.

I’ll start uploading them on my file sharing site in the ICC 2012 folder, be patient some are big and some I may have to break down but the only way I know how to do that is using CutePDF.  I tried to upskill but ran out of time and seemingly Adobe Acrobat has a file reducing feature but I don’t seem to have it anymore.  They say you learn something new everyday but unfortunately I don’t have the time to choose what I learn.  Today at least I have learned who J Davis is:-)  I assumed he was from further afield…

That Sounds Familar

Today’s letter to the editor from a group of Riverton residents reinforces what the Rezone Gore Street petition was all about!

Heads out of the sand please people.

Notice Of Appeal – Flat Hill Wind Farm

Here’s the appeal documentation

Hurrah!

Just received a Notice Of Appeal on the Flat Hill Wind Farm consent.

Te Ao Marama Inc on behalf of Te Runaka O Awarua Charitable Trust, Gail Thompson, Louise Fowler-Harnett, Eve and David Stockwell.

No time to scan in, kids playing with bubbles, food colouring and water and I’m doing lavender cuttings, maybe later.

Yay!