Lyttelton Rubbish Hunt

A town working bee to pick up that rubbish you see laying in all the corners of Lyttelton/ Ōhinehou's CBD. Why? Because we love our little town, and it's bays, and you can:

- Win Prizes - Help the environment and enjoy the results - Meet your locals in a shared task - Earn Time Bank credit (for TB members) *

Starts at 10:30am Meet behind the Lyttelton Coffee Co. (Loons carpark) to get your tools for the job. We'll have a trailer for dumping there. Finish around 11.45am, or whenever you've filled a bag, and enjoy a light refreshment.

For some friendly competition we'll be weighing in your bags to see who really goes the extra mile to give you the opportunity to win vouchers for most rubbish collected thanks to our own 'Garage Sale'. * Let the kids turn someone's trash, into their treasure, and help protect our local environment at the same time.

We'll be providing the gloves, bags, tools to collect the trash, and facilitate the dumping of all that rubbish.

Thanks to the Christchurch City Council, they'll be waiving our dumping fees, so lets make this is big haul!

* Prizes and Earnings: 4 x $5 Garage Sale Treasure vouchers 2 x $10 Garage Sale Treasure vouchers

Let us know you're coming via our facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1295199467688334

Join our Timebank via: https://lyttelton.timebanks.org/ and start earning credit

#lytteltonrubbishhunt #workingbee #rubbishhunt

Birds of Whakaraupo Exhibition

A community collaboration between Project Lyttelton, Whaka-Ora Healthy Harbours and Lyttelton Library displaying the work of four local photographers of birds who live in or visit our harbour. The captivating images aim to introduce us all to the beauty of birds and to inspire us to explore the harbour environment.

Bread is the best

I love the bread that you can buy at the Lyttelton farmers market. It's real. The only ingredients are flour, yeast, water and salt. The sourdough bread lasts nearly a week.

Now that isn't the same as the bread that you buy from the supermarket. The bread that is pure, chemical white and probably lasts for months because of all the additives. That bread has no real taste. It's like 3D paper with holes in it. You can squis it up into a tiny ball.

I used to do that with a slice of this white bread, and then I would put it in a jam jar and lower it into the River Piddle (for real) where I would catch minnows. Minnows love rubbishy bread. But I don't.

I love the bread from the Lyttelton farmers market.