Bad Hair Day

I have had a wonderful day out with Flying. We had lunch at Oddfellows. The café is situated in an old hall of the same name and the food is really good.. so is the coffee. They roast their own beans which are also shipped to cafés around the country.

This rustic sculpture across the road from the cafe is called.. “Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels.” The artist Ian Lamont was commissioned to develop the concept of an angel sculpture as part of a balustrade. ‘She’ was to be designed to fit in with the ‘cabbage trees’ also designed for the site, in keeping with the location between industrial and residential areas.

Nearby is the Addington Cemetery where we spent some time walking around the taking shots. My extra shots were taken the the cemetery.

The cemetery was established by the Presbyterian Church of St Andrews in reaction to the ‘exclusiveness’ of the Anglican Barbadoes Street Cemetery which was at that date the only cemetery in the city. As a public cemetery, Addington was open to all denominations with no segregation according to religion.

The earthquakes have badly damaged the headstones and graves which is sad to see.