Wellington Speed Traps
So, Wellington’s busiest urban speed camera is situated down Ohiro Road (which, for those unfamiliar with this road, starts down in Aro Valley, works its way up to Brooklyn, the meanders down through Happy Valley to Island Bay). This particular Wellingtonista knows the route well – I’ve been pinged at least four times over the […]
Stories Told to Me by Girls
Well, after a well-earned holiday, the staff of Wellingtonista Towers are starting to retake their respective blogging places around the spacious and freshly decorated open plan office. First up in our ‘recommended things to do in the evening now that your days have returned to the daily working grind’ is “Stories Told to Me by […]
Happy 2006
Wellingtonian flickr-ites Felicity and Philip were narrowly pipped at the post for first picture of 2006 to hit the American-based mega-site Flickr and the 2006firstpix pool (with their snap [above] of New Years revelries in Civic Square), by Masterton’s curiouskiwi (who has taken enough fine pictures of Wellington to qualify as a local anyway), who […]
Midweek Fantasy Costume Night! Slick Music! Half Price Entry! $5 Drinks!
I’m sorry, no picture, this is a family site. So I’m striding purposefully along Lambton Quay, minding my own business, head down… Suddenly I am forced to pause for a moment by the unexpected obstruction of what can best be described as somewhat generous cleavage. I look up into the eyes of an absurdly young […]
Bronze for SunnyO
Congratulations to The Wellingtonista’s Llew (of SunnyO), who’s picked up third place in this year’s NZ and Australian section of the Weblog Awards. Tim Blair, the Australian reigning champ, was always going to be tough to top, so it was really a battle between the three chasing kiwi blogs for second place, with Silent Running […]
Links for Monday, 19 December 2005
Earthquake weather? Wild Land takes a quick look at the relatively tenuous links between hot still days and the increased chance of a decent shake. (And some analysis of that big shake we had last week from the same source, here). Nearly counting as a force of nature within the Wellington urban environment, the Stagecoach […]
Links for Thursday, 15 December 2005
Hot enough for ya? WellUrban has some excellent tips on keeping cool…. So there’s been a ‘tip-off’ that someone might want to steal the Henry Moore sculpture in the Botanic Gardens. That would be the 1.6 ton, 5m high scuplture that’s situated down a long sloping grassy hillside, in full view of hundreds of Thorndon […]
Cast your vote for SunnyO!
There’s only a couple of days left in the voting for the Annual Weblog Awards, and Wellingtonista’s resident lifestyle block expert – Llew of SunnyO – is currently in Bronze Medal position with a healthy 200 or so votes. This already surpasses the effort of our Publisher-in-Chief – Natalie Biz – who notched up a […]
Red Carpet Webcam
If you can’t make it down to the King Kong Red Carpet extravaganza this afternoon, keep in mind that the Courtenay Place traffic webcam has an excellent view of the happenings. (Note: requires a plug-in, IE seems to auto-install it, Firefox doesn’t). UPDATE: More streaming video options here.
The Dockside Christmas Menu
This particular Wellingtonista was lucky enough to be invited to an associate’s Christmas lunch at the Dockside. It’d been a while since we’d been there, and last time it was a wintry evening & we huddled somewhere upstairs. Yesterday however, was as tropical as it comes & we were delighted to discover that our table […]