A short, sharp, sweet and sour chilli post: aren’t the new Lanterns at the Southern Cross garden bar great? Love ’em ! Thanks for the pix Bambi – and thanks to the Southern Cross Bar for being so awesome. Whoever the architect is, deserves a medal I tell ya ! Gung Hai Fat Choy ! Re the year of the Dragon – I think we might…
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While Auckland is agonizing over the prospect of the vile Chow brothers building a 15 story high brothel in the CBD, on the site of their demolished former heritage building, Wellington (thankfully) does not seem to be such a magnet for their Chow charms. Instead, we’ve got a more modest addition to the capital’s brothel stock, with a smaller four story high building being converted to…
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Maximus
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Hello: Indeed, as minimus notes, we’re back. Thanks for your continued interest, support, and friendly comments. Sensible post from mini, somewhat off the wall one from maxi: Guess what? It is going to be the Year of the Dragon soon (23 January), in the Chinese astrological calendar, and while I don’t normally go in for all that mystical mumbo-jumbo claptrap, dragons are just so cool, what…
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Guest
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It’s Sunday evening and I just saw through a friend’s Facebook a link indicating that Wellington icon Blanket Man (Ben Hana) died in hospital. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10778915 Since this is a blog devoted to the city of Wellington and its sense of place I can’t imagine that we could not mention his death. Â He was a permanent fixture of the streets of Wellington and was a bit of…
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Guest
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Greetings and Happy New Year! I made a singular resolution this year, and that was to write for Eye of the Fish, so it’s a pleasure to be the first post of the new year. Â Plus, with this post I’ll have already have accomplished my resolution – huzzah! One of the things that I’ve found difficult is that, unlike commenting, writing actually takes work! Â who knew……
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