The patch of fake grass installed for the pop-up council open three hours has been tripled in size, there are a few bean bags for sitting on and a couple of improvised hard seats made from pallets.
Not very grand? Well, Waikanae isn’t the Kapiti Coast’s Imperial Capital, the Hauptstadt of the Reich, so what do you expect from the council? It’s better than nothing, and more than we’ve seen in 12 years.
We’re all charmed, Geoffrey – they’ve been working really hard to make bright colourful things happen quickly in the square for this summer, and people are already lounging all over the grass – it’s brilliant not to have prison yard tiles in the middle for a bit 🙂