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  • An ad on Radio Act­ive prom­ises two cock­tails and some tapas for $15 on Wed­nes­days at Vin­tage Bar, but their out-of-date web­site can­’t con­firm this.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.