From the end of this September kiwis will get more light. The Government has just decided to extend daylight saving up to 27 weeks, three weeks extra. Clocks will go forward an hour a week earlier than usual – on the last Sunday in September – and back an hour two weeks later on the [...]

First ever kiwi choral concert last night. Not quite the Royal Albert Hall but nevertheless an impressive performance of Handel’s Messaih performed by the Orpheus Choir and the Vector Wellington Orchestra. Performed at the Wellington Town Hall it gave me plenty of opportunity for research on geometric tiles floors which we’d like to have in [...]

I can’t be sure but as well as having the highest number of cafes proportionate to the population Wellington must have the largest number of cinemas. There are all shapes and sizes and a film festival running in one cinema or another all the time. Trips to the movies were regular things when we first [...]

Did I want to be corporate wife and go to see Elton John? Why not, I said. So we did. Us and about 30,000 others at the Cake Tin. It was a strange event on a number of counts. Being corporate wife is not something I do often but pleased that MT is getting the [...]