In door outdoor flow

Enjoy the evening, sitting on the couch,watching the world go by in downtown Newtown. Lovely!

Caution 1080!

One of the unlucky ones...

Constable street, newtown

And the med food warehouse. A great place for traditional italian pizza - justa like momma usta make!

Downtown welly

Early morning

Council housing Newtown

Council housing Newtown

House tagged.

Newtown villa and street.

The epi-center of downtown Newtown

Smoke stack lightning

Ooooowwwooooo, Smoke Stack Lightening...
Take it away Howlin' Wolf!

Green cabs, Wellington

Eco friendly cabs in NZ.

Newtown hall grafitti

By the same guys who did the previous grafitti

The latest grafitti in newtown!

Scoop! The paint is not even dry before the roving reporter catches them in the act! I think they get paid to do these and they are pretty, pretty, pretty good - if you like this sort of thing.

Wellington walk wise

"We are the ears and eyes of the police - but we have no powers".

Pity the bloke has his eyes closed...


Don't want to take cheap shots, though, (ahem), because Im sure they are a valuable addition to the community. They can help with directions, phone the rozzers regarding suspect behaviour, and as they said "do what any good citizen would do - but we get paid to do it".

Majestic center and St Mary's of the Angels.

The church on the left is St Mary's of the Angels and the building on the right is the Majestic center.

Pure Murder New Zealand

I saw this on a billboard, yesterday. You are unlikely to hear anything too controversial about NZ in the media. They keep us all nicely inoculated against the big-bad-outside world. Gulf wars? What gulf wars? People starving in Africa? Never mind that, just feed the local populace more rugby stories...more inane bs on Campbell live, more "feel good kiwi" stories. Somebody landed a jumbo shrimp? Stick it on the front page! And when you get sick of the current goverment, only then focus on things which are wrong with NZ. Like food prices going through the roof. Biased media? Yep.

Wellington tea-towel

This shows the traditional tourist spots. The harbour, the cable-car,te-papa (where are the shrunken maori heads?) and the bee-hive.

discarded shopping trolley

Newtown.

Anyone for tennis, yah?

Mount cook tennis courts.

Clean, green, NZ

Here, we have a selection of junk-food wrappers thrown, with wild abandon, into the streets of Mount-Cook.

Wellingtons mural #2

Hong-Kong style BBQ

mmm, that duck looks really good!

The seige of wellingrad

This is the old YMCA which is being torn down.

Street performer, Cuba Street, #2

Street performer, cuba street

Street, downtown welly

McCluthy Park?

Downtown Wellington.

Down town Wellington

Some alley way, somewhere in Wellington.

Presumed heterosexual

Good to see this in the church.

Domestic violence campaign

NZ has one of the highest domestic violence stats in the world. This is one of the campaigns to sort it out.

NZ tackles it domestic violence issue

After Nia Glassie was hung on a washing line, dipped into an icy cold bath, beaten and spun around in a tumble dryer, the government got tough and released this ad campaign.

Steamy windows!

The view from my flat this morning. I am always amazed when I hear kiwi's claim that their houses don't suffer from damp. Well here's the proof that they do. Cold at night? Colder than a witches tit, my friend. There is no insulation.