The lat­est Mys­tery Bay (up to #22!) is up over at WellUr­ban. Kate at mye­go­ism wants some advice on the apart­ments in the Welling­ton Work­ing Men’s Club build­ing on Cuba St. Good or bad? And it looks like we might be see­ing a return to some local welly tel­ly, with the suc­cess­ful bods behind Auck­land’s […]

As both WellUr­ban and Odd­i­ty 59 (and now us) point out in their blogs, so much is hap­pen­ing in Welling­ton at the moment that it’s hard to keep track. What with the Inter­na­tion­al Arts Fes­ti­val, accom­pa­ny­ing Fringe Fes­ti­val, so called ‘fun’ runs, fairs, con­certs, ocean races (come and gone) and the occa­sion­al game of footy […]

Wan­da Har­land alerts us to this week­end’s Petone Fair. A good excuse, as she points out, to try the new Petone Fer­ry (which leaves from Queens Wharf, and thus leads us nice­ly onto our next post…) Dave5 has pho­tos of the Vol­vo Ocean Race arriv­ing in port (where they’re to be tied up down by […]

They’re putting men­tal patients in Whit­by. Whit­by? As WellUr­ban points out: “…do they seri­ous­ly expect a depressed per­son to get bet­ter in Whit­by? I feel like top­ping myself after five mintues there.” [And here’s quite a good dis­cus­sion on it on NatRad from this morn­ing.] The Vol­vo Ocean Race yachts should be sail­ing into town […]