Windy City

Wellington’s famous wind has been blowing madly all night – according to the Met Service it’s currently gusting up to 98 km/h, and I reckon that’s died down a bit from what it was doing earlier.  My room is on the top floor of the hostel, so as well as the whistling of the wind…

Horses? What horses?

ust be Cup Day today, because it’s stupidly hot.  It seems like it’s always stupidly hot on Cup Day, keeping the ambulances busy with drunken heat-stroke victims (and then, just when the weather has lulled us into thinking maybe summer is here and planning barbeques, the weather packs in again until after Christmas).  At least…

Definitely not summer yet

fter the stinking hot nor’westers at the weekend, the last couple of days have been cold and wet and miserable and back to feeling like winter again.  Someone said it even snowed in some parts of town last night!  There was definitely a lot of thunder – it was quite weird, actually: I caught the…

Hail and toilet doors

t alternately irritates and amuses me that the locks on the toilet stalls at work have the brand name “Axess”.   Irritates because wanting a trademarkable word is no excuse for mangling spelling like that, and amuses because it sounds like something used to describe a character in a Victorian melodrama, some sort of deranged…

It did

uckily, the rain stopped during the night, and it turned into a lovely day today.  Which I was very glad to see, because I had a lot of walking to do today, seeing as I’d promised to deliver those flyers for the Greens, and today was my last chance to do so (the election is…

Rain, rain go away

fter a week of lovely spring weather, even managing to reach the low 20s for a couple of days, it’s back to being cold and wet and miserable again.  I’d planned on going out to deliver those flyers today, but it was just too wet, so I’ll have to do them tomorrow – the forecast…

Lazy day

k, so I totally fail at family. I was talking to Dad this morning, and he mentioned that my step-sister had seen me at the Survivor Poetry event last weekend, and had said to pass on her apologies for not saying hello, because she’d been caught up talking to someone else so I’d left before…