Sandcastles and Sundry stuff I’m over election fever, and probably you are too. Something completely different was called for. But sandcastles? The…
KISS KISS KISS As I prepare to write, October is fast approaching; however I’m going completely off the election fever track for…
Having spent last weekend at the Martinborough Music Festival, these are my Top 10 fairly random impressions. But first, a disclaimer. I…
A first for the Wairarapa is Te Papa’s touring exhibition – Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist | He Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa.…
Some 13 Wairarapa book stores have worked together to produce a Booklover’s Trail App in what is a New Zealand first, modelled…
One of the perks of owning a bookshop is that you can get your hands on advance copies of books. Book reps…
Finally, in spite of several cancellations due to unforeseen circumstances, the Featherston Gentlemen’s Singers and the Songbirds are ready to raise their…
“Learn, explore, connect! Ako, hōpara, hono!” is the motto of the Wairarapa Walking Festival, now in its third year. The varied November…
The 2023 “Glamour & Gumboots” competition has been adjudged another huge success, with the winners only recently revealed. The quirky competition that…
Party Lines It’s coming up to election time again. To me, it doesn’t seem long since the last one. We’re…
Wenhong Luo says emphatically that none of her family is musical: “Not at all. They all work in the aerospace industry which…
