The Winter Carnival takes place this Saturday in the Hutt, albeit in Petone, part of the Hutt that would rather be Wellington. And the spirit of the event is certainly 100% Wellington at its finest. The cold wind-lashed end of winter? Let’s go to the beach! And what do you do once you’re there? You […]
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IAWL Likes…The Winter Carnival
August 13th, 2010 Comments Off on IAWL Likes…The Winter Carnival
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IAWL Likes…City Market on Sunday
July 12th, 2010 Comments Off on IAWL Likes…City Market on Sunday
Friends of mine outside of New Zealand are often incredulous about many of the facts of NZ life. Stubbies-and-jandals, $18 organic chickens, small children allowed to go 20 paces away from their parents without supervision. The most denial-inducing of them all is when I tell them that, if NZ was a country, it would be […]
IAWL Likes…Crowdsourcing a Scandal
June 16th, 2010 5 Comments
In response to the recent MPs-charging-personal-items-to-their-credit-cards scandal, a website is enlisting all of us to review MPs’ credit card receipts. And we are replying. I saw this when it first went up yesterday: 18 hours later, over 50% of the available receipts have been reviewed. Utterly fascinating.
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IAWL Likes…Stories Set In NZ
May 21st, 2010 1 Comment
The Lifer got some curious feedback about this blog the other day. “When I started to read it at first…I was confused. I mean, stories aren’t set in Wellington. They’re set in New York. Or maybe Paris. So it was hard to wrap my head around it that this was a story set where I […]
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IAWL Likes…Google Maps
May 10th, 2010 Comments Off on IAWL Likes…Google Maps
You probably read that title and thought, “Likes Google Maps? As do all good folk.” But Google Maps, with its Satellite and Terrain features, are especially important in this burg. Google Maps helps me navigate some of the most convoluted urban geology known to humanity. If I’m going to a house in an unfamiliar neighborhood, […]
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IAWL Likes…Poppies
April 18th, 2010 Comments Off on IAWL Likes…Poppies
It’s that week before Anzac Day when flashes of red appear on our lapels. Wearing the poppy for remembrance says so many things. “I respect my ancestors…Gallipoli was horrible…I gave a gold coin to the nice poppy-handing-out person, did you?” The poppy design can’t have changed since the early 60s – late enough for the […]
IAWL Likes: Fish Heads!
April 9th, 2010 Comments Off on IAWL Likes: Fish Heads!
A break from Our Story So Far today. These will happen occasionally, for event recommendations, or admin notes, or to comment on some mind-boggling Wellington events. Because readers asked for them, we now have: A LiveJournal feed A Facebook network We are also instituting an 8:00 AM posting time on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The […]
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