Author: Robyn

Giant Pile of Rubble Terrorises Wellington City

What the hell’s going on down Magin­nity Street?!

Wrecked cars! A massive pile of rubble! Res­cue crews mov­ing in! OMG, the big one has finally hit!

And yet Peth­er­ick Tower is look­ing sur­pris­ingly undam­aged…

All is revealed after the jump.

Baby, you can share my car

Here at the Wel­ling­tonista we like pub­lic trans­port, but there are times when you need a car to do stuff, like pick­ing up that flat­pack cock­tail cab­in­et out in Lower Hutt.

At the moment your options are pretty much lim­ited to bor­row­ing a friend’s car, hir­ing a taxi, or fork­ing out for a rent­al, but there is a more sens­ible option.

It’s called car shar­ing, and is cur­rently up and run­ning in Auck­land through a com­pany called City­hop.

With City­hop, you pay a yearly fee (cur­rently $75), and when you need to use a car, you make a book­ing, then pick up your car from one of the spe­cified city car parks, do your car-related stuff, then return it, pay­ing a $13.50 hourly rate (includ­ing pet­rol!) for its use.

City­hop’s been run­ning in Auck­land since Septem­ber last year, and accord­ing to their web­site they’ll be open­ing soon here in Wel­ling­ton.

Need­less to say, we will be keep­ing a close eye on this. Per­haps now we’ll finally be able to get that cock­tail cab­in­et for Wel­ling­tonista Towers.

Fight’s The Power

Every­one loves a good apo­strophe cata­strophe. I was delighted to find this one at a chem­ist near the train sta­tion:

ORLY?

I was think­ing maybe it’s a product name, like “Dr Fight­’s Cold & Flu Rem­edy”, but real­ist­ic­ally it seems like just anoth­er sad case of a hor­ribly mis­placed apo­strophe.

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