Author: Joanna

Blowing each other’s trumpets (Part I)

 The Welling­ton­ista drink a lot togeth­er, so it’s nat­ur­al that at times we will end up blow­ing each oth­er’s trum­pets. Let us show you what we mean:

• Martha has opened up a new branch of the fab­u­lous Wan­da Har­land at 24 Eliz­a­beth St. Mt Vic­to­ria.
• Sue has anoth­er Craft 2.0 com­ing up on Octo­ber 24.
• Joan­na has start­ed yet anoth­er blog. You are so entertaining.com is all about host­ing events. The Pret­ties are also hav­ing anoth­er party/clothing swap that you’re invit­ed to. 

Newtown: it’s sometimes more than a bit shit

On Wednes­day night, our next door neigh­bours were bur­gled. On Fri­day night, my house was bur­gled. A cou­ple of weeks ago some­one tried to climb in my win­dow while I was sleep­ing. My flat­mate’s car has been restolen from out­side our house, but ha ha, sucks to be them because the pre­vi­ous thieves had used up all the petrol in it. It’s times like this that I need to be reas­sured of the good things in New­town. Things like:

• The otters at the zoo!
• The halou­mi at Cafe Kialis
• The macad­e­mia & chick­en sal­ad at Baobob

What are your favourite things about New­town right now?

Eat before you WOW?

f you’re going to the Mon­tana World of Wear­ableArt and you want to make sure that you eat first, Welling­tonNZ have put togeth­er a handy list of near­by-ish restau­rants that offer express menus to make sure you get to the show on time. We’re par­tic­u­lar­ly fond of Trade Kitchen. Nat­u­ral­ly, even if you’re not going to the show, you can still indulge your­self with these din­ners…

Wellington is a good place to get shipwrecked

We’ve writ­ten before about the fire at the Maranui Surf Cafe, and how bloody sad that was, but it’s kind of bloody love­ly to see the way that this city can be all small-town-like and good-heart­ed, with yet more events planned to raise mon­ey for the cause.

Ship­wrecked! Maranui Staff Ben­e­fit Con­cert Par­ty is hap­pen­ing this Sat­ur­day Sep­tem­ber 5 at the Tug Boat, and $20 will get you in to see the Eggs, Lone­some Cow­boy and oth­er bands, as well as chances to win prizes from Madame Fan­cy Pants, Real Surf and Joug Design

And if that’s not quite enough par­ty­ing for you, there’s also the after­par­ty at SFBH where koha on the door will get you a free shot.

Wellington on a plate on the web

We’ve been par­tic­u­lar­ly lax in not cov­er­ing Welling­ton on a Plate, in my case because I am dras­ti­cal­ly short of funds and if I wrote about it I’d just get sad that I can’t eat every sin­gle thing on offer. But luck­i­ly, we can out­source the work to a third-world coun­try instead. My favourite food blog­ger from Syd­ney — Helen at Grab Your Fork — has been in Welling­ton as a guest of Welling­ton Tourism, and she’s been doing some fan­tas­tic posts about what she’s been eat­ing, along with tak­ing some very tasty pho­tos like the one at the right of the bak­ing class at Florid­i­ta’s. You should check her out, and also check out the fes­ti­val itself. If you’re short of a din­ing com­pan­ion, feel free to extend an invi­ta­tion to me…

Monsters attack!

Remem­ber when Abel Smith Street was full of mon­sters recent­ly? Here’s the ad that was the cause of it all.

Have you seen this necklace?

(In which we let you eat cake)

Ekel­tus Inc are going for baroque with a lav­ish event this Sat­ur­day — The Affair of the Dia­mond Neck­lace: an evening with Marie Antoinette in the Gar­dens of Ver­sailles — a din­ner, ball and the­atre expe­ri­ence all joined togeth­er in one sump­tu­ous affair. It sounds rather excel­lent, and we can hearti­ly rec­om­mend dress­ing up as Marie Antoinette, so per­haps you should find out more right now, oui?