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PAGE 8 BAY HARBOUR Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Wednesday August 28 2019 Your Local Views VITTORIA & Matt Food, family and words I WAS WRONG last week, so I’d best correct myself. The church in Laura’s home village of Pravisdomini is about 1000 years old, rather than 600, and was built some time after Attila the Hun and his band of merry men “toured” an ageing Roman Empire. Apparently there’s also a whole mess of the bones of Vittoria’s ancestors a metre or so under the church lawn too. Vittoria’s been living the high life this last week. After recovering from the side effects of antibiotics, she’s been accompanying us on a fairly busy circuit of friends, family, nearby towns and villages. She’s been cuddled near to death by the older rellies, having a blast with the younger family members and running amok with the kids of our friends who are of a similar age. The exercise is key with an appetite like hers. We always knew Vittoria was a good wee eater, but she’s honestly eating almost as much as us adults. It’s so great to see after she was off her food the first week, however, I doubt any of us will be coming back any lighter. The big meals have been put to good use in fuelling an increase in Vittoria’s communication skills. She has definitively mastered the word “this” and can now ask you to “do this” or ask “what’s this?” accompanied by furious pointing. She’s also begun playing with the words “rubbish” and “finished”, although I’m still not sure she’s got it yet. It just kind of sounds like “ish” either way. And it’s not just output that I’ve noticed. With Italian (or the local brand Venetian spoken by most of Laura’s relatives) surrounding her almost all day, every day, Vittoria can now understand a few PLAYMATES: As Sunday lunch at a friend’s house stretches into dinnertime, Vittoria takes a ride while her wee mate Edoardo steers. phrases and respond accordingly. I mean respond physically – like she’ll probably wander over if you ask her to in Italian – not verbally. She’s also starting to get into the Italian childrens’ time frame, which I’m not sure is exactly ideal. Up at 6.30am, a leisurely postlunch nap at 2pm-ish and then pushing the boundaries until almost 10pm if she can get away with it. While I’m excited to try and keep using as much Italian as possible when we return home, I think I might see about leaving the timetable behind. •Former Bay Harbour News journalist Matt Salmons has become a stay-at-home dad. We follow his journey weekly. Readers respond to last week’s article which showed what Collett’s Corner in Lyttelton will look like when it opens in 2022 Felicite Jardine – I am totally opposed to this design and structure. It is totally out of keeping with the current character of the township. Lyttelton does not need this kind of space or building. Smaller quirkier space works better for attracting people to come and spend time here in my opinion. Margaret Pool – This design is disgusting, it has no village look or feel about it what so ever. As a resident for over 50 years I think it is an insult to the local people that truly call Lyttelton home. Toni Jones – How disappointing to see a building which mimics the more loathsome aspects of the botch-up that’s the Christchurch rebuild. With the exception of Strange’s building, the stacky boxes with little lanes – High St is it? – the renovations of some heritage buildings and, originally postquake, the Re:start, we’re lumbered with monstrosities which look inept and clumsy. The Hoyts building, those awful flats on the corner of Brougham and Colombo Sts, everything looks temporary and cheap, as if they’re covered in a job lot of bathroom tiles. Now, as well as Lyttelton Primary, which just needs a few litres of orange paint to make it look like Mitre 10, we have a proposal for another cheap-looking building on a prime site in the port. •If you have an opinion about something happening in your area, email jess.gibson@ starmedia.kiwi Never mind all the banging on about ‘colours referencing Bill Hammond’s paintings’ and sea and sky and what have you, it’s a blot. Poor old Stanaways, turned down for a really innovative, bold piece of architecture. Now the city council seems to be, in its cloth-eyed way, forcing what looked as though it might be something interesting into a boring piece of nothing, which in 20-30 years time will look even cheaper and nastier. Why is there this passion for attaching bits of tat onto everything that’s replacing what used to be here? How brilliant is the Lyttelton Coffee Company, rebuilt with passion and imagination? Those wonderful little pump stations, their bold numbers and beautiful weathered wood. The silo stay at Little River. The Wright-Stow house in Lyttelton. We have some great architects in NZ. Why do we have to put up with flimsy-looking rubbish covered in cheap looking insubstantial decoration? Bet it’s not cheap, sure as hell looks cheap. Dianna Garrett – I have some familiarity with the original design competition and have to say it is extremely disappointing to see how different from the original winning scheme the redesign is. Warren and Mahoney appear to have taken over the original young architectural team’s fresh, innovative project and made it blandly corporate. The competition entrants, not just the winning scheme, made huge efforts to present unique and original designs that related to context and I feel if the current scheme was presented it would not have won. 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