NZ’s longest running outdoor cinema

It’s that time of year again. Some mega out­door film view­ing action lies ahead for the Welling­ton region. Let’s all raise our faces sky­ward in the hope the weath­er comes to the par­ty this year as the line-up is the right mix of clas­sic, con­tem­po­rary and fun! Kick­ing off  THIS Thurs­day 6 Feb­ru­ary AT *6:30PM […]

Middle of Middle Earth Market and Movies

There’s a hob­bit-abrew­ing in this wee city of ours. Today we’ve got anoth­er guest post from HeatherC from Food­ie Gems of Welling­ton all about the mar­kets going on. Get in quick!  If you’re a LOTR fan, you could do worse than get your­self down to Wai­t­an­gi Park for 6pm each of the next three nights […]

Sooooo… we gonna ban this too?

waitangi park

Just ask­ing.

A Snark at the Park

A guest post from Ken­no…

Wai­t­an­gi Park, yeah, sigh, it leaves me flat. Be warned, that will become the most overused descrip­tion of the next few years. It’s an urban space sur­round­ing the mar­vel­lous Te Papa and there­by it’s not sim­ply a Welling­ton space but a space that should might­i­ly reflect the nation­al char­ac­ter.

Well, if the idea was to reflect bland con­ser­v­a­tive con­formism and lock-step sim­ple mind­ed­ness with all the indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and self expres­sion of a school­girl uni­form, then it will suc­ceed. I, for one, thought we might want to reflect oth­er, per­haps more appeal­ing aspects of the nation­al char­ac­ter. Don’t get me wrong, this place would real­ly wow them in Nel­son or Timaru, but, this city is a lit­tle beyond that, a bit more mature, slight­ly more cos­mopoli­tan and far­ther away from pig-dogs and pad­docks. Right? God, I was real­ly try­ing to under­state the case.

A natural love

Dear fel­low Welling­ton­istas and the good peo­ple of Welling­ton in gen­er­al, If the weath­er is as gor­geous tomor­row as it is today, you must do what I did at lunchtime today — get gold­en crisp fish’n chips from Thorn­don Fish’n Chips (don’t let the name fool you, it’s next to A‑Mart and across the road […]