For those of us who like pub­lic trans­port but real­ly could give less than a fly­ing fish about a cer­tain S word, here are some tid­bits to round out your week­end:

  • Per­haps we won’t always have Paris — a notice of “reen­try” has been sight­ed in its win­dow.
  • The ‘Ho won ‘Best Bar in New Zealand’ for like, the mil­lionth time. Go them!
  • In hap­py bus news, Go Welling­ton has final­ly cot­toned on to the fact that many uni stu­dents live in Hataitai and Brook­lyn, so they’re doing a tri­al exten­sion of the #5 and #7 routes up to Kel­burn. This is also good news for peo­ple who work on the Ter­race but are too lazy to take a lift up to there from Lambton Quay, but not that great if you’re look­ing for more infor­ma­tion about it on the Metlink site.
  • The Wom­en’s Lifestyle Expo: appar­ent­ly all women need to lose weight, have bad cred­it and like to eat choco­late. Well duh, say the Pret­ty Pret­ty Pret­ty girls, who hap­pen to have an awe­some Skin­food prize pack to give away that this Fly is cov­et­ing.
  • An ad on Radio Active promis­es two cock­tails and some tapas for $15 on Wednes­days at Vin­tage Bar, but their out-of-date web­site can’t con­firm this.
  • In oth­er gos­sip, appar­ent­ly the crowds of Bridge and Tun­nel­ers who want to go to Tem­per­ance Bar are caus­ing some has­sles for oth­er venues on the street, with mass­es queu­ing out­side. There was men­tion that police in riot gear have been called in, but our source, while gen­er­al­ly very reli­able, was almost as drunk as this Fly, so take it with a grain of salt.
  • Look­ing for a cen­tral city loca­tion for cot­tag­ing? The Coun­cil is look­ing to rede­vel­op Coble­stone Park on Vivian Street.
  • If you love his penis, you should have been with Joel Cos­grove in the Aro Val­ley yes­ter­day for a Welling­ton Cen­tral Can­di­dates’ Forum.Stephen Franks was there after all: “Joust­ing with the Aro Val­ley left has its charms but they are not intel­lec­tu­al. Too much right­eous faith and too few with an objec­tive inter­est in knowl­edge to offer sus­tained chal­lenge”. A sus­tained chal­lenge like, oh I don’t know, win­ning the Welling­ton elec­torate back from the Left? Not going to hap­pen, Frankly.