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September 17, 2007

Say it ain’t so — the Chocolate Fish to close

Waiter Crossing - The Chocolate Fish, Scorching Bay (Wellington, NZ)Using the won­ders of mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy and the inter­web we here at Wellingon­si­ta Tow­ers have dis­cov­ered that The Choco­late Fish over at Scorch­ing Bay is set to close.

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

Don’t believe us — read this arti­cle from Stuff.co.nz:

Welling­ton’s land­mark Choco­late Fish Cafe is to close at the end of the year, hit by ris­ing rent and coun­cil com­pli­ance costs.
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So what can we do — find out after the break…

Mike Riversdale
Food & Drink
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December 9, 2005

Being part of the community

It’s all very good and well read­ing Welling­ton­ista every day, and think­ing to your­self “hur­rah, I am an active part of Welling­ton! I am hip and young and down with the kids” — but what have you done for the com­mu­ni­ty late­ly? I’m not talk­ing about giv­ing to char­i­ty, or coach­ing a sports team, or […]

Joanna
Events
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September 7, 2005

Survival Guide

Cour­tesy of the Down­town Com­mu­ni­ty Min­istry, here’s a guide to sur­viv­ing Welling­ton on a low income. Hat tip to T at Procrastinatehere.blogspot.com Sur­vival Guide to Welling­ton

llew
Internet/Web
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August 4, 2005

Breastfeeding Bonanza

Wom­en’s Health Action are cel­e­brat­ing World Breast­feed­ing Week in style, with an attempt to break the world record for “The most moth­ers breast­feed­ing simul­ta­ne­ous­ly”. The valiant attempt will be made this Sat­ur­day 6th August, with the nation­wide “latch-on” at 11am. The count­down will be broad­cast on The Edge 97.5. The Welling­ton venue will be Tren­tham […]

noizyboy
Events / Hutt Valley
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May 17, 2005

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 […]

noizyboy
Food & Drink
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February 21, 2005

Rugby Registration Day for Kids

Just a quick note for any­one with under 13yo kids who might want to play rug­by this year — reg­is­tra­tions for Welling­ton Junior Rug­by is this Sat­ur­day (Sat 26th). Junior Rug­by is non-con­­tact, non-tack­­le, and is grad­ed to take weight and age into account. There’s more info on the game on the WRFU web­site, includ­ing […]

noizyboy
Sport
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