It’s not easy to keep your balance on a trolley bus if you are wearing vertiginous high heels or are weighed down with shopping. It can feel like surfing rather than just riding the bus. But spare a thought for those whose seatlessness is more than just an inconvenience. In recent months, this Wellingtonista has noticed her protruding baby bump doesn’t get her a coveted seat on a packed peak hour bus. I can be standing with my bump right in some civil servant’s face and he won’t budge. And just this morning, I watched embarrassed at myself and my fellow Wellingtonians, as a woman with Parkinson’s struggled to hang onto a pole as our bus swept down Brooklyn Hill packed to the gunnels with people looking the other way. Have Wellingtonians lost their benevolence for their fellow man — all for the price of a seat on the bus? Surely the people of my beloved city are better than that? Surely?
The ever-edgy Craftwerk is wrapping up a tour of our fine country with bands, mix tapes and craft galore at the Wesley Methodist Hall on Taranaki Street this Saturday 5pm — 9pm. Be there or miss out on crocheted vaginas, fort building and tonnes of sugary goodness.
Ahem.
Hi. I’m new. I’ve been recently invited to write for this fabulous website, so here’s hoping I don’t make a complete dick of myself in my first post.
Introducing yourself to hundreds, possibly thousands of readers is a tough one to pull off. Even though I’m a writer by trade — a features journo for the Dominion Post — I figure who needs actual sentences when summing yourself up is best done by a list:
Things I like:
— Craft
— French food
— Red things.
Things I may post about in the future:
— Why bus drivers have PMT at the moment
— The chronic shortage of decent maternity wear in this city
— Suburban cat politics
— Best hairstyles for windy weather
— Why living in a cul-de-sac is the coolest thing since red shiny shorts in the 1970s.
I usually have a home at Special K where I make lists, talk about my cat, ponder my gradually expanding body, and wax lyrical about the people I meet through my awesome job. Hopefully, what I write on here will be much, much more interesting.
Look forward to meeting y’all. K