Updates here have slowed to a crawl, co-incidentally work has been a lot busier for me. I suspect there is a link there. The further travels of two Kiwis in Western Australia will be appearing here at some point, I’m just not sure exactly when. In the meantime here are some nice photos from the […]
ASB Gardens Magic: Eva Prowse
During summer there are a series of free concerts at the sound shell found in the Wellington Botanical Gardens. I wanted to go to a few nights last year but a combination of work and bad weather scuppered those plans. This year there are a few artists performing on nights I’m not working and we […]
The Petone Winter Carnival
We again attended the Petone Winter Carnival this year, having enjoyed our visit last time around. We weren’t quite as organised this year and turned up late for the fire sculptures, most of them already alight or finished burning when we finally got to the beach. We got to see the final two burning, the […]
Smaug the Golden
Smaug the Golden is the first in a range of statues being produced by Weta based on the artwork of John Howe, this particular piece coming from illustrations for the Hobbit. I quite enjoyed getting the large box home and then unpacking the statue. We have a small problem in that we don’t really have […]
East Coast Holiday: Napier
Being in Napier it seemed only natural to visit a winery. We took ourselves to the Church Road winery for a tour and tasting. The first tour of the day only had six people including us so it was a quite intimate tour, though I’m thinking that touring wineries is something we won’t be doing […]
Back to the Weta Cave
I’ve been working a fair bit of overtime the last couple of weeks which is not conductive to getting out and about. We did manage to squeeze in a visit to the Weta Cave this weekend just gone to attend a book signing by John Howe. John is in Wellington working on the forthcoming Hobbit […]
Art on the Southbank & Kate Walsh
We had an arty evening yesterday. I finished work around 4pm and met Keryn outside Embankment station. Having found each other we made our way to the Southbank and found the entrance for the Hayward Gallery. For the next few months the Hayward is displaying work commissioned from Antony Gormley, the man who created the […]
Julian Beever
On the news last night there was a brief item about a new work created by Julian Beever. Julian creates amazing pieces of art using chalk and I know him best for his pavement drawings. Anyway, the latest work was created in front of the old Bank of England so I figured I could get […]
One calendar month
It’s a month until our last day of work…there is so much to do! At least most of it is just packing, the holiday/sabbatical/trip is mostly taken care of now. In the meantime we get up to other things as well as preparation for the future. We’ve seen movies, attended farewells at work, worked, and […]