At last: a return to what this blog was set up to do – a review of a local building. This one is really aimed at keeping DavidP happy, who has undoubtedly noted this progressing along. It is not quite finished yet, but is forming a much needed edge to the formerly neglected corner of Tory and College St in downtown Te Aro. We’re talking of…
So the time has come at last: the first of a presumed wave of proposals to demolish perfectly good buildings in Wellington. Christchurch has had to put up with a swathe of demolition over the last couple of years, and they are getting so good at destroying everything down there, that they have forgotten that it is not compulsory. Cranmer Courts is their city’s latest disgrace…
I’ve been wanting to write a blog post about Kim Dot Com since the day he burst onto our collective consciousnesses a few months ago. He is an enigma. Not quite “A riddle inside a mystery wrapped in an enigma”, but certainly he is rapidly becoming the most interesting person in New Zealand politics. Perhaps that’s not a difficult target, as the competition is not up…
On the way to the northern suburbs of Wellington, on route to the southern suburbs of Porirua, sits the bustling suburbopolis of Tawa. Famous for its great Tawa trees (sadly, I think, all chopped down), as well as for it’s Dressmart shopping outlet (designer brands at great discount prices), Tawa is also home to a prison (though it doesn’t like to talk so much about that…
Earthquake ! 9.26 this morning – earth quake drill. You’re supposed to Drop to the floor, take Cover under your Desk, and Hold onto something. Meh. I don’t even fit under my desk. I’m Doomed. And what is all that nonsense about having 3 litres of water in your office, per person. Is anyone really expecting that we are going to keep on working at our…
We tend to take technology for granted these days. No longer do we have to carry a spare pint of oil or a spare fan belt in our cars, no longer is it necessary to have access to a map book when we go to visit an old forgotten aunty. Nowadays, modern wee technocrats that we are, we’re surrounded by technology, and it just works, dammit,…
All things going well, you should see a new mast-head on the Eye of the Fish today. It is part of a visual – actually, it’s a little work of art – by the wonderfully talented and incredibly gorgeous Kelly Spencer. Most of the time you’ll only get to see a slither of the Fish, and that all-seeing Eye, but we might let you peek under…
Did you know that it is international Tolkien Week this week? I didn’t. And are you eagerly awaiting the next trailer for The Hobbit, due out tomorrow, from our lordly uber-meister, Sir Peter Jackson? I’m sure you probably are – I certainly am. PJ has done more to lift Wellington out of the gloom and doom of governmental restructuring than we ever give him credit for….
So, after nearly a year, the Royal Commission into the effects of the Canterbury Earthquakes has heard its last witness, seen its last powerpoint, and drank its last afternoon tea. They’ve had a jolly old time. Meanwhile, what have we learned? Well, here at the Eye of the Fish, we’ve learned quite a lot. Having never seen a Royal Commission before (racks brain trying to think…
Following on from the last post about Fashion, we all know that Green is the new black. Actually, it has been Green for a few years now, so beige is probably the new green, and possibly puce is the new beige as well, but anyhow: yes, well: Green roofs are certainly IN right now. And green walls. But first of all: the best picture of a…