In their own words

Nice things said.

People who love this city, in their own words, full names, because they meant it. If that’s you too, say the word and you might land here.

Voices for the city · names in full · nothing paid for

**Daniel Siemers** *— building hitter.nz, the app for finding a tennis hitting partner in Christchurch* *Also here, the courts of Christchurch, all 160 mapped.*

**Merlin Stemmer** *— made chch.live; merlinstemmer.co.nz* *Also here, how this site works, in his own words.*

A panorama of central Christchurch from above, 1923 — **1923** Christchurch from above, the opening print of the beautiful city, the archive's best photographs hung in rooms.

Say something nice.

A sentence is plenty. Email stemmermerlin@gmail.com with your words and your full name, a person reads every one, and if it lands it goes up with your name and, if you’ve got one, your site.

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Nothing here is paid for or traded, these are just people who like the place, said so, and didn’t mind their name on it.