Bay Harbour: March 20, 2019
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Keeping measles away<br />
KEEPING MEASLES at bay<br />
has been our top priority.<br />
It’s been excellent, I’ve<br />
barely driven further than<br />
30km the whole time.<br />
Vittoria has thoroughly<br />
enjoyed the car seat reprieve.<br />
In spite of this, it was me<br />
suffering in the car.<br />
With all the measles cases<br />
popping up in the region, we<br />
booked Vittoria in for her<br />
next stage of immunisations<br />
as soon as we could.<br />
Unfortunately, that meant<br />
8.30am.<br />
But Vittoria and I needed<br />
to stay in Waikuku and<br />
we couldn’t move the<br />
appointment.<br />
With the rush on the<br />
measles vaccine, I didn’t want<br />
to risk missing out.<br />
Anyone who’s ever done<br />
the North Canterbury to<br />
Christchurch commute will<br />
understand why this is a bit<br />
of a stretch if you don’t leave<br />
early enough.<br />
So, for the first time in a<br />
long time, I woke up before<br />
Vittoria and then in turn<br />
woke her at 6.30am.<br />
Having said that, we didn’t<br />
leave until 7.45am.<br />
By the time we hit Main<br />
North Rd, we were knee<br />
deep in traffic, time was<br />
ticking and my road rage was<br />
kicking in.<br />
I was sweating, watching<br />
the minutes creep by.<br />
Meanwhile, Vittoria was<br />
chilling in the back seat,<br />
having a sip of water when we<br />
were forced to crawl along.<br />
If you were driving there<br />
at the same time, I’m sorry,<br />
I definitely called you some<br />
very carefully selected words.<br />
Not swear words, of course,<br />
as bubs might pick that up.<br />
No, I likely called you a<br />
VITTORIA<br />
& Matt<br />
spoon or a muggy fluffer.<br />
I need not have stressed<br />
really, we got there just in the<br />
nick of time to wait in the<br />
waiting room for the vaccines<br />
to be ready.<br />
Now, having whinged<br />
about myself, I need to extol<br />
the virtues of my daughter –<br />
because she did great.<br />
She cried a bit when the<br />
needles went in (just two<br />
this time) but was running<br />
around outside smiling and<br />
laughing 2min later.<br />
She was even her happy self<br />
for the rest of the day.<br />
But we’ve not long noticed<br />
that she’s pushing a molar<br />
out. So watch this space as to<br />
whether her happy self sticks<br />
it out.<br />
•Former <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong><br />
News journalist<br />
Matt Salmons has<br />
become a stay-at-home<br />
dad. We follow his<br />
journey weekly.<br />
Exhibitions on<br />
Sumner Rd<br />
reopening<br />
THE HISTORY OF Sumner<br />
Rd has been captured in two<br />
exhibitions celebrating its<br />
reopening.<br />
The exhibitions, which are<br />
on at the Lyttelton Library and<br />
the Mataku Takotako: Sumner<br />
Centre until April 28, tell<br />
the story of the road and the<br />
important role it has played in<br />
linking the communities.<br />
They have been put together<br />
to mark the reconstruction of<br />
Sumner Rd, which is set to reopen<br />
to traffic for the first time in eight<br />
years at 6pm next Friday.<br />
“Since Sumner Rd opened in<br />
1857 it has played a vital role in<br />
Christchurch’s transport network,’’<br />
said Lyttelton community<br />
librarian Annette Williams.<br />
Ms Williams said the road also<br />
played a role in the defence of<br />
Christchurch against possible<br />
enemy attack.<br />
“In the late 19th century, when<br />
there were fears the Russians<br />
were going to invade, gun<br />
emplacements were installed at<br />
strategic points along Sumner<br />
Rd.”<br />
The exhibitions detail the<br />
engineering work that has gone<br />
into keeping Sumner Rd open for<br />
the past 160 years.<br />
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