Noth­ing about signs here, I promise, except that a tweet I saw after the storm wished that the sign had been up so that we’d have alpha­bet soup in the har­bour right now. But in some bul­let points that you might be able to use: 

  • Con­grat­u­la­tions to Ange whose Four Sea­sons Cock­tail has won her a dou­ble pass to the 42Below Cock­tail World Cup. Can you please email us your address so I can send that out to you, Ange? And the rest of you can buy tick­ets for your­self online or at the Hawthorn Lounge. The Old Muse­um Build­ing is a love­ly venue and cock­tails are always a good time. 
  • Speak­ing of alco­hol-relat­ed events, Cel­lar-Vate are start­ing up their wine­mak­er din­ners for the year with Coney Wines on March 31. Tick­ets are $45 and are avail­able in store, or you can book on the phone. Coney make deli­cious wines, and their tast­ing notes are kind of hilar­i­ous, so it should be a good night. 
  • Our cousins in the north, The Auck­lan­dista are mak­ing a go of it again, so if you had delet­ed it from your book­marks due to inac­tiv­i­ty, you might want to resub­scribe. 
  • We set up a form­spring account so y’all could ask us anony­mous ques­tions, and while it was easy to reply if we get paid by any of the bars we men­tion (we’re not. Full dis­clo­sure though: occa­sion­al­ly we get treat­ed extra nice, but only as reg­u­lars are, rather than because we wield the almighty pow­er of teh blo­gos­phere) it’s much hard­er to advise on how could some­one find a book­club to join. Do you guys have any answers?