Gone Fishing

We would make a joke about how these guys quit the Wel­ling­tonista to move to Auck­land (or Churton Park), only… that’s pretty much what sev­er­al of them did.

Robyn Galla­gh­er is no longer explor­ing and writ­ing about her favour­ite bits of Wel­ling­ton, but she can still be found over at her long-run­ning blog, watch­ing too many music videos, or gen­er­ally muck­ing around on the inter­net.

Kow­hai Mont­gomery was a born-again Wel­ling­to­ni­an. Back in Aotearoa she had indeed been blessed by the blood of the lamb.

Kim­ber­ley Roth­well was Wel­ling­ton’s most fam­ous 5′9″ tall, red scarf-wear­ing, freckle-faced, knocked-up journ­al­ist. She stuck it to the man by wear­ing Skech­ers to work, and had a pic­ture of her cat being inter­viewed by Radio NZ on her desk. She also had flicky, flicky hair.

Andrew Llewellyn liked to be recog­nised around town as Viggo Morten­son’s stunt double. But nev­er was. Because he was­n’t. Used to own real black and beige sheep. And felt pat­ri­ot­ic for it.

Michael Gregg: from the main­land dia­spora, settled in Welly, pur­vey­or of online ads, bad at html, good with wine, a Googleo­phile & a poor pho­to­graph­er.

Jessie Scoul­lar was the black sheep of the fam­ily, resid­ing in far-off Auck­land. She got by with the bare min­im­um of par­ti­cip­a­tion but enjoyed send­ing encour­aging behind-the-scenes emails. She appre­ci­ated good music and good food.

Emily Walk­er enjoyed music, gam­ing, genet­ics, bio­logy, pho­to­graphy, geocach­ing, com­puters, World of War­craft, nan­o­tech­no­logy, the Sin­gu­lar­ity, les­bi­an media, threadless.com, gos­sip and pop kulcha. Yes, she was a nerd. And closely related to one of the mem­bers of Wel­ling­ton’s very excel­lent Phoenix Found­a­tion.

A former writer of some­thing inter­est­ing, later Che Tibby wrote pretty much any­where any­one will let him. We thought this was either a claim to rel­ev­ance or a cry for help. We’re not sure.

Mike Riversdale was a Miramar-mian/ite ever since mov­ing from Wales to New Zea­l­and back in the dying years of the last cen­tury. He nev­er had time to blog everything he wanted, had nev­er owned a house, horse or a Hold­en and did­n’t pos­sess a PC. He was always on the look out for cool things to dis­tract the kids with.

Mitch Marks claimed to have lived in nearly every small town in the coun­try dur­ing her gypsy child­hood, but called Wel­ling­ton home. Mitch was the edit­or of a new pop cul­ture and com­ics-based free magazine called Choice.

Hadyn Green (posts) wrote a lot of stuff for the Wel­ling­tonista back in the heady days of the mid-2000’s when we drank cock­tails not beer and the Wel­ling­ton dub-scene was a real thing. He can now be found writ­ing for a bunch of pub­lic­a­tions includ­ing Con­sumer NZ and Fish­head.

lib­rar­ykris is now liv­ing wild in the Wel­ling­ton green­belt. Occa­sion­ally you can hear them scream­ing ‘Bravo’ as kākā fly over­head.