Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Maree’s musings

ON the OTHER HAND … A few weeks ago I had an unfortunate altercation with some boiling water – filling a hottie,…

Jun 2021

Arts & Culture

LIBRARY UPDATES

Chances are you’ll notice a different look in the Library next time you visit – we’re going to be making a few…

Jun 2021

Arts & Culture

Expanding Belgium 

The boundary between France and Belgium is believed to have been inadvertently redrawn by a farmer who found the 200-year-old border stone…

Jun 2021

Arts & Culture

Community Choir

On May 26th the Martinborough Community Choir held a concert at Wharekaka to provide some ‘almost winter’ cheer to the residents. They…

Jun 2021

Arts & Culture

Calling all bagpipe players

The call is out to South Wairarapa bagpipe players: would you like to join a group of recreational pipers? Such a group…

Jun 2021

Arts & Culture

Book review

A sort of Conscience. The Wakefields. This is not a new book, however it is available from the library and with the…

Jun 2021

Arts & Culture

Poem

On Anzac Day 2021 Skinned of their skin and bled of their blood, Encased in the ground, encaked with mud, Now side…

May 2021

Arts & Culture

Library News

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley.…

May 2021

Arts & Culture

Reality TV gone wrong 

The Straits Times has reported on the case of a man who ended up on a Popstars-style Chinese show, but then wasn’t able to…

May 2021

Arts & Culture

Maree’s musings 

ENTITLED It’s been a few weeks now since Prince Philip, husband of the Queen, and Duke of Edinburgh, died. As we know,…

May 2021

Arts & Culture

Greytown Music Group

Ghost Trio in Greytown In 2019 Violinist Monique Lapins, Pianist Gabriela Glapska, and Cellist Ken Ichinosi combined as a piano trio as…

May 2021

Arts & Culture

Book review 

Battlers, Bluffers and bully boys. Spending some time sifting through the Library’s catalogue often rewards with an interesting find, Battlers, Bluffers and…

May 2021

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