The Chinese New Year is coming soon
January 28 until February 11. And listen up folks, it’s the Year of the Dog! What we’re particularly looking forward to is the Asian Market (11am-3pm) at the Events Centre on the waterfront on Festival Day (Feb 11). The food! The crowds! But mostly the food. Festival day will also sport a parade from Courtenay […]
A date for the prom
When’s the last time you stood by the wall hoping that someone would ask you to dance, and then they did, and you put your hands on their shoulders and they put their hands on your waist and you stepped left, and then you stepped right and oh man, it was so exciting, and you […]
Your last supper
Let Wellingtonista point you towards the Last Supper Club’s bible-quoting yummy sounding menu that’s available at their website. Yesterday it was more elaborate, while the restaurant features a much more simple version. However, today, the real menu is online. We all live happily ever after. Here’s a hot tip for you – if you are […]
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 […]