Blogs / August 2012
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Kōrero kākahu: Veranoa Hetet and Te Rōpu Miro
- Te Papa's blog
- Veranoa Hetet and her group of weavers Te Rōpu Miro have been the weavers in residence for the Kahu Ora Living Cloaks exhibition for the last few weeks. Time goes so fast and it’s hard to believe this will be their last weekend at Te Papa, as they finish on Sunday 2 September. Veranoa and her family have had a long [...]
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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News from Loans: A Collection Returns Home
- Te Papa's blog
- In any museum collection you will find items or entire collections that were lent at some point in the distant past, sometimes more than a hundred years ago. It is always rewarding when a relationship is re-established with the owner and the items or collection can be returned to its rightful place. This happened to [...]
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Improvements in Whanganui’s cycleways
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I had a revisit to Whanganui.
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It’s a pity we live amongst the unimaginative
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- A while ago I wrote a piece called the Heart of the Horowhenua which were some ideas about how I would route cycleways through the district (the Horowhenua district obviously).
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Tramping from Levin to Palmerston North
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- If you’ve got a spare 4 days and want a decent enough tramp that isn’t going to kill you, with public transport at both ends, then I’d recommend a walk from Levin to Palmerston North following the route of the Te Araroa Trail.
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Repeat Drunk-Drivers should not be on the road
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- It is with absolute horror that I read today (in the Dom Post) that Kenneth Morgan, a Tawa man with 23 convictions and an “indefinite ban”, has been given his driver’s license back.
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Smarter transport, now on video
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Generation Zero continues to push the message of smarter transport with this short video. I’m continually impressed with the work they are doing and with their unrelenting energy.
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WOAP: just one burger
- The Wellingtonista
- I’m running out of food-related puns.
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WOAP overload: a plum and a duke
- The Wellingtonista
- I love Wellington on a Plate, especially when I ignore my bank balance and focus on ticking off as many lines as possible on my spreadsheet.
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Running down underground to a dive bar in Welly-town
- The Wellingtonista
- A few Wellingtonistas recently had occasion to discuss the possibilities for getting a drink – a serious drink, mind, not a Mimosa or Bloody Mary – at 9:30am on a Monday.
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WOAP: Bake Club
- The Wellingtonista
- The first rule of Bake Club is you have to talk about Bake Club.
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now we’re cooking with fire
- The Wellingtonista
- Leafing through the Wellington on a Plate catalog some months ago, one event in particular seemed to stand out for me.
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Is it time to dust off Wellington’s 2004 Gehl Report?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Is it time to dust off for a reread the Danish firm, Gehl Architects’ 2004 Report for Wellington’s City to Waterfront Study? The NZTA are often accused of sham public consultations and then doing whatever they want, and that may well be the case for what they are now calling The Tunnel to Tunnel Inner City Transport Improvements.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Could you cycle in Masterton in winter?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Could you cycle in this? Could you cycle in a town as fouled as Masteron in winter on a still night? The picture above is from the Wairarapa Mail’s July 2012 story on Masterton smog levels.
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Beer what you want to beer
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s Choice Beer Week here in Wellington and last night The Sutton Group Brewers Guild of New Zealand Awards took place at the Michael Fowler Centre.
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More WOAP: the bland, the sublime and the curious
- The Wellingtonista
- As I said before, I’m working my way around the lunchtime Dine menus of places near my work.
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Benefit Concert for The Court Theatre at Circa
- The Wellingtonista
- Next Monday (20 August) a group of Wellington performers will be getting together to raise funds for The Court Theatre in Christchurch.
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Wellington on a Plate so far
- The Wellingtonista
- Wellington on a Plate opened on Friday.
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Review: West End Girls
- The Wellingtonista
- The first job artist Barbara Tate had in Soho was in a bar.
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Brancott all dressed up and ready to WOW you
- The Wellingtonista
- We’ve really enjoyed going to the Brancott Estate World of WearableArt Awards Show over the past couple of years, back from when the naming rights sponsor had a different name.
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The Friendly Cyclist
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Everyone in NZ, if not the World, has already found out about the fantastic little cycling in Wellington videos at The Friendly Cyclist.
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A lion (and others) in winter
- The Wellingtonista
- Right now the magnolias are in bloom along Roy Street in Newtown, and it’s gorgeous.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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the Friendly Cyclist
- The Wellingtonista
- Sometimes you see them: dignified, terribly cool, impeccably dressed, and upright, making their way through the rush hour traffic on their old-fashioned bikes in a manner poles opposite to the more common fluoro speedsters.
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It’s all in the game.
- The Wellingtonista
- Avert your eyes if you are vegetarian, have an aversion to meat products, or if you’ve had a pet bird and now chicken is not a menu option.
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