Places We Like to Eat At — Dojo

Accord­ing to their web­site, Dojo is Japan­ese for “Place of the Way”. If mem­o­ry serves, a dojo is also Mod­esty Blaise’s weapon of choice — kind of like two door han­dles joined togeth­er, which can be applied with force to pres­sure points on your oppo­nen­t’s body to inflict all kinds of harm & inca­pac­i­ta­tions. And […]

Places we like to eat at – Arashi Kushiyaki Bar

You know what’s great? Food on sticks. It’s a sim­ple con­cept, but a good­ie. If Welling­ton­ist was in Auck­land, we’d hap­pi­ly spend all our time (well, not ALL, but a great deal) at Tanuk­i’s Cave, and it’s not just because of our love for huge bad­ger tes­ti­cles. How­ev­er, as you may know, we don’t live […]

Sanctuary

“Sanc­tu­ary! Sanc­tu­ary!” was the cry from with­in Welling­ton­ist Tow­ers. The young ‘uns were blast­ing out the lat­est local tunes as some old ‘uns moved their bod­ies in decid­ed­ly unfunky ways. The anti­quat­ed com­mu­ni­ca­tions sys­tem was being updat­ed with new tubes result­ing in lots of bangs and crash­es. The rest of the staff were in the […]

investing for the future

There are many kinds of invest­ments avail­able on the mar­ket today: putting a lit­tle some­thing aside for lat­er can be very reward­ing. One of our favourite kinds is a bot­tle or two of nice wine. And where bet­ter to source your invest­ment than just over the hill from Welling­ton, in Mar­t­in­bor­ough? Set aside a Sun­day. […]