Not So Posh Nosh
To be honest I’ve had a hell of a job finding any really good food in Xuyi. Occasionally I’ll come across something that has that extra little bit of fresh …
Writing
Dead Love
This abandoned and unloved house has been the topic of many a conversation over the years that I’ve lived next to it. To many of us in the neighbourhood it’s …
Being Here – Why people leave their city lives for a home in the Wairarapa
Steven and Mary It was the weather that finally did it. Really, that city is only fit for penguins and masochists. They were over it, had reached a stage in …
Jess was in da House!
It was perfect. Just how I wanted it to be. Music was very definitely in the house last night. Judging by the enthusiasm with which the concept was received a …
Proved Wrong – Again
I’ve been proved wrong – again. So many gigs I’ve attended in recent times have been spoiled by inconsiderate patrons blabbing their way through the performance that I’ve been considering …
Solanum lycopersicum – an urban or a rural fruit?
Gardening doesn’t come naturally to me. I was born in the middle of London and raised between there and a tiny house in central Wellington. Although my very resourceful mother …
The Sound of Silence
I slept last night with the windows wide open, not because it was particularly hot, but because for the first time in a while it was deadly silent. Not a …
Train Wreck Averted. Lucinda Williams, Wellington, 15 April 2009
Whatever was in that milkshake-sized paper cup that Lucinda Williams sipped from at the Wellington Town Hall last night, it helped avoid almost certain disaster. In a show of two …
Good Songs Mate! Steve Earle Plays Wellington, NZ
For what was essentially a “one man and his guitar” show, Steve Earle surely kicked up a storm in a comfortably-full Wellington Opera House last night. Walk-in music from a …