Wellington essentials
OK, so I am now living in Wellington. This is a fairly typical New Zealand city and as such, there is stuff all decent public transport, so I bought a car. This was quite exciting for me because I have never owned one before and my full clean drivers' licence of 10 years' standing was somewhat underutilized in Pomgolia. I drive to work in Gracefield, the other end of Lower Hutt, every day.
This is my car. It is black and has windscreen wipers.
My flat is on Glenmore St in Thorndon, which is pretty central to Wellington. It's about 10 minutes walk up the road from the Beehive (houses of Parliament) and 15 minutes walk from the Caketin (aka Stadium). A little bit further from all the booze joints downtown. I am across the road from the Wellington Botanic Garden which is excellent for going for runs (with hills !!! ... !!!) and climbing trees and spooky walks with glow-worms etc. I live with 3 others in this flat, 2 of whom (Jacinta and Bridget, pronounced Brudgut) walk to work in the City and on of whom (Kerri) drives to Lower Hutt like me ... actually we are swapping Bridget for Fearis (sp?-it's not like Bueller) and his pet rat Nigel, and he drives to the Hutt as well. This is not unusual as it is easy to get on to the motorway from our place and people of a certain age like to like fairly central regardless of where they work. Bridget is soon to be spotted in a London pub near you.
This is my room. You can see the leafy Botanic Garden on the other side of the road. This was when I first moved in, now there is all my junk in here plus 2 of the flat's 6 couches. Trademe.com is working hard to dispose of some of these.
I have been playing cricket (aka crucket). The guy whose room I moved into has turned out to be my cricket captain at Victoria University Wellington Cricket Club's Senior Reserve side, which is called the Lions (rarrrgh). Highlights of the half-season I played included 156 for VUWCC 2D side when I first turned up, then 2 unbeaten fifties in 4 knocks for the senior reserves, including a crucial 73* in our do-or-die relegation match, in which we perished by the sword, but it turned out we weren't relegated anyway so we needn't have bothered. Also I took a catch just like Nathan Astle's, the week before he did, on our beautiful (if windy) home ground at Kelburn Park (see photo), just on the other side of the Garden from my flat. Cricket has been responsible for me hardly getting any further than the Occidental during my brief forays into Wellington township.
This is a photo I took that looks a lot like a common postcard. View is from the top of the cable car overlooking Wellington City/ Harbour. The cricket ground in the middle is Kelburn Park, home of the mighty VUWCC Lions.
This is a bruise I got playing cricket. Some guy was bowling fast inswingers. I got this and a foot and toe that are still sore and 73*.
This is my car. It is black and has windscreen wipers.
My flat is on Glenmore St in Thorndon, which is pretty central to Wellington. It's about 10 minutes walk up the road from the Beehive (houses of Parliament) and 15 minutes walk from the Caketin (aka Stadium). A little bit further from all the booze joints downtown. I am across the road from the Wellington Botanic Garden which is excellent for going for runs (with hills !!! ... !!!) and climbing trees and spooky walks with glow-worms etc. I live with 3 others in this flat, 2 of whom (Jacinta and Bridget, pronounced Brudgut) walk to work in the City and on of whom (Kerri) drives to Lower Hutt like me ... actually we are swapping Bridget for Fearis (sp?-it's not like Bueller) and his pet rat Nigel, and he drives to the Hutt as well. This is not unusual as it is easy to get on to the motorway from our place and people of a certain age like to like fairly central regardless of where they work. Bridget is soon to be spotted in a London pub near you.
This is my room. You can see the leafy Botanic Garden on the other side of the road. This was when I first moved in, now there is all my junk in here plus 2 of the flat's 6 couches. Trademe.com is working hard to dispose of some of these.
I have been playing cricket (aka crucket). The guy whose room I moved into has turned out to be my cricket captain at Victoria University Wellington Cricket Club's Senior Reserve side, which is called the Lions (rarrrgh). Highlights of the half-season I played included 156 for VUWCC 2D side when I first turned up, then 2 unbeaten fifties in 4 knocks for the senior reserves, including a crucial 73* in our do-or-die relegation match, in which we perished by the sword, but it turned out we weren't relegated anyway so we needn't have bothered. Also I took a catch just like Nathan Astle's, the week before he did, on our beautiful (if windy) home ground at Kelburn Park (see photo), just on the other side of the Garden from my flat. Cricket has been responsible for me hardly getting any further than the Occidental during my brief forays into Wellington township.
This is a photo I took that looks a lot like a common postcard. View is from the top of the cable car overlooking Wellington City/ Harbour. The cricket ground in the middle is Kelburn Park, home of the mighty VUWCC Lions.
This is a bruise I got playing cricket. Some guy was bowling fast inswingers. I got this and a foot and toe that are still sore and 73*.
posted by Geoff_W | 10:56 PM
8 Comments:
Unfortunately Jif obviously only accepts comments along the lines of gosh look at that bruise aren't you a little trooper, and emphatically does not approve comments questioning why we have to look at his bare leg on his website.
But never mind.
Cool psychadelic bruise!
shurely you've got a better photo from the top of the cable car??
I took one myself, from a tree top...
Well this one has
a) the cable car
b) Kelburn Park and
c) an uncanny resemblance to a postcard, so I thought I'd post it. I can send you the ones from the tree if you want.
Does that make me a 'Pomgolian' then?
Yes. How is the celery? I hope I mentioned that there is lots of good mountain biking in Wellington!
one of the most interesting blog that I have viewed..... I would like visit this place someday....keeeeep it up............
its Bredjet not brudjet, geoffrina
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