The Wellingtonista and Karori
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Super Fry
- 29 Dec 2008
- The Wellingtonista
- Stephen Fry, actor, author, wit and geek, is on his way to dear sweet Wellington and we are rather excited! He's coming to Aotearoa New Zealand to film some bits for a BBC series he's presenting, Another Chance To See, where he's travelling the world, checking up on endangered species. While he's in Wellington, he'll be visiting the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary to see how the kakapo is doing (rather
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This Wellingtonista newsitem has 6 comments.
- ‘I saw him at Auckland Airport on Friday, and had just that twitter following dilemma. He looked harassed (and tall) so I left him be. He was twittering at the time. I see he is down south now, so they are flying the poor man in circles.’
- ‘Nice work! Part of our New Year's Eve celebrations involved idly speculating where Mr Fry might be staying and - this is the important one - what one would say if one bumped into him. Answer: "O hai! I'm one of your Twitter followers!!!"’
- ‘My flatmate and I have been incessantly stalking him via twitter, and entirely by luck we have got closer to him than most. First I saw him having breakfast at Leuven on Featherson yesterday, and then today he stopped by Te Papa, where I work. Courtesy o’
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K'Boom! 2: The Re-explodening
- 10 Jun 2008
- The Wellingtonista
- Wellington is now the place to be for flaming vehicles, and it's not just cars. Now even buses explode! A bus to Karori caught fire tonight as it carried tired commuters home. Like petrol-guzzlers needed more excuses to not take public transport.
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This Wellingtonista newsitem has 9 comments.
- ‘No, a completely different model. In fact the Auckland bus in your photo is much newer than the Wellington one that caught fire. The problems are similar though. These low-floor buses all have the engines crammed in the very back, behind the rear seat, a’
- ‘Photos of an Auckland bus that caught fire in 2006: http://www.nzpaimages.co.nz/events.php?event_id=686 I wonder if it's the same type as the Wellington one.’
- ‘Makes me think of Wankel Rotary engines...’
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