Not much into jazz myself, but this looks like a bloody good event for those that are http://www.jazzinmartinborough.co.nz/index.html Fill your boots!

Steven and Mary It was the weather that finally did it. Really, that city is only fit for penguins and masochists. They were over it, had reached a stage in life when, although not retired, there was no need to be holed up in a big house on Wellington’s south coast watching the rain and [...]

It was perfect. Just how I wanted it to be. Music was very definitely in the house last night. Judging by the enthusiasm with which the concept was received a couple of months ago; the enthusiasm with which Jess Chambers‘ performance was received last night; and the enthusiastic emails I’ve received today, the old-fashioned ‘salon [...]

Gardening doesn’t come naturally to me. I was born in the middle of London and raised between there and a tiny house in central Wellington.  Although my very resourceful mother coaxed a family-load of vegetables and herbs from a few square feet of dirt in Tinakori Road, the urge to till the soil never rubbed [...]

I slept last night with the windows wide open, not because it was particularly hot, but because for the first time in a while it was deadly silent. Not a breath of wind, no animals baying or baa-ing or moo-ing or barking, no children dispatching animated aliens in the den, no haymaking or direct-drilling machinery [...]

Listening to Matinee Idle today, and Phil mentioned not being able to get in to a show by a visiting British musician Jez Lowe at … Carterton’s “Lounge” bar! Thanks Phil, but please don’t encourage everyone to come over here – it’s nice and quiet, just how I like it!