10 Years in Pōneke: Part One!

I’ve been liv­ing in Pōneke for ten years this Feb­ru­ary, and hon­estly – I can barely believe it. It cer­tainly does­n’t feel like ten years have passed since I was left to fend for myself at Weir House, ready for my first year at uni­ver­sity – but some­how, the time has passed and here we […]

Theatre Review: Destination Beehive: 2017

You pos­sibly couldn’t get more Wel­ling­ton than head­ing to the theatre, regard­less of the weath­er, to watch a music­al about polit­ics. Last week, I went along to Des­tin­a­tion Bee­hive: 2017, writ­ten by the clev­er and witty duo of Lor­ae Parry and Pinky Agnew. The seat of Tinakori Heights is highly con­ten­ded this elec­tion as every […]

Are you Super? Will you Submit

The loc­al gov­ern­ment com­mis­sion has pro­posed a reor­gan­isa­tion of the Wel­ling­ton region, which you can read more about over on the loc­al gov­ern­ment com­mis­sion site. The region­al coun­cil is split over the pro­pos­al. Per­haps more import­antly, accord­ing to Stuff, only 26% of Wel­ling­to­ni­ans are in favour of the pro­pos­al. We’re not tak­ing a side here […]

The TGIF wander

Last Fri­day’s TGIF wander reminded me of some of the char­ac­ter­ful, fun and tasty small ven­ues we have around the city (in this case the Cour­tenay quarter). Firstly a ‘You Sexy Thing’ mock­tail at Vinyl bar.  A creamy chai and car­a­mel cre­ation which hit the spot nicely on a warm sum­mer­’s even­ing. There’s some­thing about […]

Happy tasty new year…

We’ve been silent a while haven’t we.  Here’s a few tasty (and gen­er­ally health­i­er) morsels and a tipple I’ve tripped over through New Years: Plum café’s birch­er muesli – oats, almond milk, greek yoghurt, fresh mango and toasted coconut. Pleas­ing dens­ity and fla­vour. Ombra’s mush­room parmes­an and rock­et ciabatta break­fast (8am-12noon).  Such a bet­ter time of […]

Easter markets

Here are the YES’s and NO’s for the usu­al Wel­ling­ton mar­kets over East­er if you fancy a wander and inhale or imbibe: YES’s: Frank Kitts under­ground craft mar­ket on Sat­urday Pori­rua and Hutt River­side mar­kets on Sat­urday Hill Street Farm­ers mar­ket on Sat­urday The Fringe Mar­kets in Allen Street on Sat­urday Har­bourside mar­ket on Sunday […]

Creative Weekend on Miramar Peninsula

It’s Artist in Action week­end on the Miramar Pen­in­sula. This week­end from 10–4pm on Sat­urday 8 March and Sunday 9 March 2014 vis­its artists on the pen­in­su­lar from paint­ers to pot­ters to print­makers,  and more in their stu­di­os. It’s part of the Miramar Pen­in­sula Arts Trail  which you can fol­low at any time, but this week­end, gets you access to more stu­di­os, space […]

Eats, rides and city living (and now earthquakes!)

This post is an intro­duc­tion since the folks at Wel­ling­tonista have kindly invited me to join their merry band (and I now have an unex­pec­ted day off since the office is closed). So a little about me ….  I LOVE Wel­ling­ton, food, events, eat­ing exper­i­ences, movies, solo Sat­urday morn­ing wanders, soak­ing up the city vibe, […]