> 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.…
> Not as good as this? Thought so…… View from the place we’re staying at in Mapua. Alternative view. To be honest, I think I prefer this one….
> 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…
> Date and orange scone Given the current state of the housing market in New Zealand (a brief period of fiscal sanity and buyer reticence before the next feeding frenzy…
> 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,…
> The Fresh Choice supermarket in Richmond gets a big tick from me. Good range of product, nice people and a stunning wine department run by David Jones. Seriously nice…
> 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…
> A fry of Steve Fullmer’s eels
> 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…
> I had LOADS more photographs from Not the Nelson Daily Photo than I could have used before I had to come to terms with reality (and geography) and get…
> 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…
> Words fail me…. (No they don’t) The Suter café is consistently good – imaginative cooking, decent coffee, affordable wine and cultured customers. And some REAL sights……
> 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…
> We have excellent neighbours. Erika and Siegfried, the 163 year olds and the Famous Reporters from across the road in the Fatherland. And these folk from Mapua: Frank (2nd…
> 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…
> Great people, great food, great art. Posted using BlogPress
> 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…
This is my mate, Steve Fullmer, potter extraordinaire of Tasman. (Website here, Facebook here) New Zealand’s premier award for ceramic art used to be the Fletcher Challenge. Steve won it…
> Now, is the “Boatshed” the restaurant or would that be the “Boathouse”? And where do they have Friday night concerts and open a café during the week at…
> Don’t do it and you’ll be sprouting melanomas within minutes. Slip on a t-shirt, slop on some sunscreen, slap on a hat. That’s the mantra that you see all…
> Cameron and Maria turned up with yesterday afternoon (plus a rigger of beer from Golden Beer) when they came around for sundowners and nibbles. All from their own 5000m2…
> Mapua Wharf has a bit of a chequered history. There’s been a wharf here since 1915, primarily to ship out the pip-fruit harvest from the orchards in the area.…
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