If you’ve become all fes­ti­valled out recent­ly, or, like this Welling­ton­ista seem to find the whole thing slid­ing by you with­out seem­ing to make any impact despite best inten­tions oth­er­wise, then take heart: life does con­tin­ue else­where.

For exam­ple, this week­end, the sub­ur­ban envi­ron­men­tal­ist can get their car’s emis­sions checked at:

[…] the West­pac Sta­di­um car park on Sat­ur­day 18 March, between 10am and 4pm. Your car can have a ‘dri­ve through’ test using NIWA’s high-tech laser air emis­sion equip­ment. It will give you an instant read­out of your car’s exhaust emis­sion lev­els. This will tell you how clean your car is run­ning, or whether its emis­sions lev­els are too high. The check is FREE and should take only a cou­ple of min­utes. Entry to the Sta­di­um car park is along Aotea Quay, head­ing towards the motor­way.

Or, if that does­n’t float your boat (it does­n’t real­ly com­pare to Fes­ti­val activ­i­ties, now does it), how about Tuatara Day up at the Karori Wildlife Sanc­tu­ary, a.k.a. Juras­sic Park?

[…] for a guar­an­teed encounter with these ancient rep­tiles, come along to our Tuatara Day on Sat­ur­day 18 March. Between 11am and 3pm, vis­i­tors will get the oppor­tu­ni­ty to see and touch these ‘liv­ing dinosaurs’. […] There will be a range of activ­i­ties for all the fam­i­ly, includ­ing face-paint­ing, a ‘tuatara teas­er’ quiz and sausage siz­zle.

It’s all out there to be had, in this city of ours.