> Ross Johnston takes old sawblades, car springs, files and circular saws and turns them into objects of true beauty. He sells them on the Nelson Market on Saturdays. He…
> All I ever wanted to be was an artist. Of course, life’s not that simple. So, before launching my career in 1999, I slung whiskey, taught wikd and wooly…
> The Canterbury Crusaders had already dedicated their game against the New South Wales Waratahs to November’s Pike River mining disaster before Christchurch’s earthquake hit and their stadium was damaged.…
> Our young friend Stefan Miller at Fresh Choice in Richmond on his first day as barista at the new takeaway coffee bar they’ve set up at the entrance…
> If you’ve played for the All Blacks, you’ve pretty much got it made in New Zealand. “Deification” doesn’t come close. I’ve known 3: “Snow” White, who lived down the…
> The Moutere Inn is New Zealand’s oldest pub. Built in 1850. It was a place to avoid for the longest time – motorcycle gangs used to hang out there,…
> Along with thousands of other Cantabrians, the Canterbury rugby team, the Crusaders, is homeless. In the great scheme of things and in comparison with the unspeakable sufferings of…
Legend has it that Nelson is the home to more Morris Minors than any other place in New Zealand. (Nelson also has 2.2% of the population and 17%…
> One of the best things about being back in Nelson is popping into Baku in Richmond and being greeting like long lost friends by people like Lynda. Secretly, I’m…
> With thanks to Meg and Ben for tolerating the intrusion ….I’m convinced that this is one of the best galleries I know. Run by one of the nicest…
Ticking over until summer drags in the tourists… – Posted using BlogPress
> Just PRETEND that this is a sunset, OK? Poetic license It’s actually been the morning view from bed for the best part of the last month. Will we miss…
> Everything’s OK as long as you go with the flow. If you get served the worst fish and chips you’ve EVER had, just accept it. If someone promises…
> Kitty and Charlotte go to Nelson Intermediate. If you’re lucky, you’ll experience them singing acapella on Trafalgar Street in Nelson. They’re really quite good. If you hang around and…
> The International Dateline lets me do two posts today. I bet you’re all just squirming with delight….. Christine Boswijk is one of New Zealand’s major artists. (They don’t hand…
> You’ve probably by now cottoned on to the fact that we’ve been encroaching on Meg and Ben’s “Nelson Daily Photo” territory for the last couple of weeks. What you…
> You can say that again…! WoW was/is the World of Wearable Art show (an opportunity for fashion designers to push the envelope to the point of perforation ..) that…
> I’ve always liked boats, but having lived in landlocked Germany for the majority of my adult life, it’s been a fairly remote attraction. The closest I’ve got in…
> Owen and Kaye Pope bought an over-run farm in the Moutere in the late 1980s. Rampant raspberries amidst the wilderness Kaye made some jam, they took it to the…
> No-one makes better whitebait fritters than Robin Fullmer. Period. Especially at 4:30 am when you’ve been invited around to watch an All Blacks game in the northern hemisphere on…
I have a friend who’s an artist. Mostly ceramics, but she also paints. Her husband‘s also a ceramicist – completely different field, mind you – and she started trying…
> The place we’re staying at is really quite well set up, but there are some essentials that every good kitchen needs. And – given that we’re here for almost…
> These guys were on the Nelson Market on Saturday, playing “The Entertainer” at a a rate of knots and just RAKING it in. The kid on the electric piano…
> The Nelson region is firmly rooted in agriculture. These days it’s renowned for wine and olives (which are relatively new crops), but there have always been apple orchards. Since…
> The Nelson region has over 100,000 hectares of production forestry. The port exports over 800,000 m3 of timber annually. So why would a vessel loaded to the gunwales with…
> Fresh Choice is a small supermarket group with one location in Nelson and another (much nicer) one in the Richmond Mall. They support local producers. Not because it’s trendy…
So, here we are then. Nelson dwarfed by the engine nacelle of the Q300 (that’s Meg & Ben down there somewhere… ) and the first compression of the oleo leg…
> ..and Meg from Nelson Daily Photo. I was sure that I’d blogged this at the time, but that’s what senility does for you… Kath Bee’s a singer/songwriter of kiddies’…
> Couldn’t stand the bloody snow any more, to be honest, so I’ve packed up the tents, gathered up the harem, loaded the camels and headed down here for a…
> Back in Nelson cutting hay the other week, so met up with Meg and Ben from the excellent Nelson Daily Photo for a coffee at the Red Gallery. Which…
Mainz Daily Photo 