The thousand different shades of green of the park are all glossy and shiny from the intermittent rain during the Buskers Festival, but the park is still busy. Guy and Comfrey came down to Christchurch only for the duration of the festival, he himself as a performer. “I don’t normally busk, I am an actor but this is the largest event of the year. This time I play a female role, a Scottish fortune-teller. It’s exciting because this year there is a kids’ corner as well just here behind the fence, I perform there too.” As we chat about the couple’s experience at the festival they share the previous nights’ magical spontaneity. “During the late night burlesque the power went out for twenty minutes. It was pitch dark for nearly half an hour! The main actress held her phone above her head the entire time to cast light on herself and kept on talking and entertaining the audience the whole time. And the people were listening to her, they didn’t seem to mind the interruption, they were there to enjoy the show regardless. When the power came back everything could just go on as if nothing happened.”