A lion (and others) in winter
Right now the magnolias are in bloom along Roy Street in Newtown, and it’s gorgeous. But of course, it’s around this time last year that it snowed, so don’t be fooled – it’s still winter. The good news though, means that Wellington Zoo has entry for only $5 on Wednesdays throughout all of August. Naturally […]
the Friendly Cyclist
Sometimes you see them: dignified, terribly cool, impeccably dressed, and upright, making their way through the rush hour traffic on their old-fashioned bikes in a manner poles opposite to the more common fluoro speedsters. A beacon of bicycling style, and also: fairly damned hot. Yes, you think, now that’s certainly one mode of commuter cycling […]
It’s all in the game.
Avert your eyes if you are vegetarian, have an aversion to meat products, or if you’ve had a pet bird and now chicken is not a menu option. What follows is a discussion of a delectable degustation dinner consisting of game birds. Unless you belong to one of the three groups above how can you […]
Miniature Wellington
Via Dave on Twitter (and a few others including, we now see, the Dom Post) comes this lovely Wellington time-lapse video from local film maker Jared Gray: If only all those cars were that small in real life!
Cocktail tales in the Capital
Two cocktail-related news bites for you today. Item one! Last week saw the official launch of The Black Sparrow, a beautiful space with very delicious food and drinks. You might be like “huh, what, where?”. We’ve already written about the bar, but that was when it was confusingly called Deluxe – it’s under the Embassy […]
FixTV: people in Wellington doing cool things
The first episode of FixTV has gone live on their FB page. It’s filmed at Downstage in front of an audience. I don’t think they’ve quite got the mix right in terms of what they want for the web chat show versus what I want from a show when I’m in a theatre. There are […]
Cooking class something to raw about
Urban Harvest has been doing really interesting tastings/cooking classes for a while out of their Mount Victoria shop. We went along to a Pacific Harvest seaweed class, and were deliciously surprised, It was a fun night as well, so I thought I’d give you a heads-up about the next class coming up. They’re having a […]
Quick Brown Fox Launch, Friday July 6th
Given the passion of certain Wellingtonistas for all things coffee, and the obsession of others for cocktails, it was never going to be hard to tempt us to the launch of a new artisan coffee liqueur. Add a label featuring an anthropomorphised fox inspired by the Wildean dandy Lord Henry Wotton, and throw the party […]
What we’ve been tweeting about lately
Do you follow us on Twitter? A lot of you do. But you might miss our tweets in amongst all your very important updates from sportspeople, so here’s what’s been going on. We talked about a new Mojo opening in the Telecom building on Willis Street, and what a relief that was since it was […]
Wellington winter nostalgia (no, really)
Today’s guest post comes courtesy of Daisy Coles – you read more of her stuff over at daisyandzelda.wordpress.com I’m sitting in my togs on shady grass in a hidden corner of Europe. I’m watching the dragonflies flit round a lazy little branch of the Danube, with a wine spritzer in one hand and an incomprehensible newspaper […]