Well, here we are. Ten years on and I’m revisiting this old image again, of me standing outside my work building on 22 February 2011. I honestly didn’t think it had been five years since I last did this but apparently it has been.
You may remember my triptych of photos then…
Well, here’s the 2021 version, taken today.
As you can see, there’s not a lot of change with the empty section that used to be National Library of New Zealand’s Christchurch office. Sure, the weeds are a bit bigger but that’s about it.
I can also confirm that this skirt which was pretty comfortable ten years ago is now VERY tight, like, I wiggled it on in the car and took it back off again straight after we took this photo. What can I say? Middle age happens.
You’ll also notice a steadily declining lack of commitment to historically accurate footwear in these “re-enactments”, so it seems that I am not as committed to this “bit” as I used to be. Also, the day of the earthquake in 2011 was unseasonably cool and overcast, there was absolutely no way I was pulling on opaque tights and boots for this – I’d just come from a picnic, ferchrissake.
So anyway, make of this 10th anniversary edition what you will. And if you’re wondering why a perfectly good section of land has sat empty for 9 years, you wouldn’t be the only one…
