Orange is not a colour, it's a state of mind
March 19th, 2009 — Out and about
Just went to the Geonet site to find out the magnitude of a small quake we felt during breakfast this morning only to discover that we felt the 7.7 (yikes!) quake from the undersea volcano erupting in Tonga at the moment. Stuff.co.nz is reporting that New Zealand is on a tsunami alert – *if* it comes it will get to Fiji around 10am and then here next I guess. Wonder if I should go home and pack.
March 16th, 2009 — Out and about
We’re becoming rather partial to People’s coffee. Am not saying it yet but sometimes I feel a bit over Fuel – palette might be changing from their peppery blend although quality can be a bit up and down. Plus we’re getting excellent coffee out of machine at home at the moment (Supreme beans) so that’s a lot for any cafe to stack up to – ha! Anyway, keeping our eyes peeled for People’s cafes. So far:
March 2nd, 2009 — Out and about
Westpac has got some kind of plastic new age frontage over the weekend – we saw the boxes lying around in the rain on Saturday and wondered what was in them.
February 27th, 2009 — Out and about
Hairdresser gossip provides more information about the Willis/Boulcott St demolition … apparently big trucks came one night and took the apartments on stilts away to the Hutt somewhere. The way he tells it, all the furniture and chattels in the apartments were just shrink wrapped/tied down and each apartment was picked up as-lived-in and moved. I’m wondering how they got them onto the motorway from there though – there are tight bends and an underpass to get through … I guess they closed the roads and went the wrong way up the slip road to The Terrace.
17 storeys of Telecom ‘campus’ are going there it seems.
February 27th, 2009 — Out and about
At Gotham this morning sparrows were hopping around the floor looking for crumbs. I was referring to them as he or she depending on which one hopped over really close. The Mister wanted to know if I was randomly calling them he and she. He didn’t know that sparrow fact! So I told him – boys have a black bib, girls have none. Now he’s wondering what *important* bit of information got bumped out of his brain so that that gem can reside there. Eyeroll.
February 26th, 2009 — Out and about
Finally. Someone we work with has girls old enough to be in Brownies and she’s selling Girl Guide biscuits from her desk! Saves The Mister having to search out little girls in uniform in the streets and us having to carry cash around every weekend just in case we see them.
Clap clap – bikkies should be here in 10 days or so!
February 20th, 2009 — Out and about
What does a girl have to do to get a cup of coffee at 4.30pm (on a Friday no less) in this town. There are some things in the European and American food life style that I’m not so keen on (to generalise terribly, the long drawn out meals and massive portions respectively) but the coffee culture or large populations of either mean that you can get a cup of coffee at any time and it doens’t have to be from a pub. Superfino is closed already. The People’s Coffee garage door was closing when I got there. So here I am back up at funky Offbeat Originals in Left Bank. And the coffee is pretty good today.
Am also trying out CafeNET for the first time. Should’ve nicked the Mister’s Mac wireless internet thingy that he uses for work but I’m not like that even though am largely here checking work emails and tickets (*privately* of course). Just like I don’t expense claim every damn cup of coffee that I buy on work business. Anyway I’m rambling. CafeNET is cool! Just signed up for $20 worth of bytes and it’s fast! Wouldn’t know I’m not at home. I always wondered how it worked – so even though you can choose ‘CafeNet’ as the wireless provider every site is blocked (no connection) except theirs – I guess they have to make it so easy for you to buy!
(God. I’m the most normal person here. Everyone’s smoking, not sure how long I’ll last. Oh! And a woman near my just got the tiniest dog out of her handbag!)
February 19th, 2009 — Out and about
Rain is heavy thick wet drops coming straight down – it’s Bay of Plenty rain and everyone’s arriving at work totally drenched in their rain coats. Esp those coming from far away places like the Hutt.
February 14th, 2009 — Out and about
Our Short Dark Friend is in there somewhere. The Wellington Round the Bays race. Very cool to see so many Wellingtonians out enjoying themsevles in our city. Not a bad day for it either.
February 14th, 2009 — Out and about
Bloody Superfino does not seem to be opening up on Saturdays any more. Thought it was just a new-year-slowness-and-so-many-public-holidays-until-early-Feb thing but they were not open today. So we tried somewhere else very local, kind of a crazy hippie place in Left Bank but the cafes and satay places up there are always jam packed. Offbeat Originals. It’s got lots of 70’s orange and brown furniture and those orange glass vases and bottles everywhere and they do coffee and burgers and toasted sandwhiches and smoothies and jars of bikkies and milkshakes (which the Mister couldn’t resist, especially as someone told us a couple of years ago that they made the best). Coffee was good enough to drink the whole cup – tasted a bit Illy-like, so not a local fresh roast. Turns out it was Sublime – some Nelson-based place I’ve just discovered. Why not go Wellington? Anyway, the Mister is determined that we’ll be going back for a burger for dinner sometime. Yeah. I really like burgers.
