Mount Cook, Wellington

Wondering about something in your neighbourhood?

Wondering about something in your neighbourhood?

Whether it's a new building going up or a strange noise you keep hearing, ask your neighbours here.

939 days ago

Haiku Poetry Day

NumberWorks'nWords Kilbirnie

Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry made of short, unrhymed lines that evoke natural imagery. Haiku can come in a variety of different formats of short verses, though the most common is a three-line poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern. Have a go and share your Haiku in the comments below!

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939 days ago

Meal planning with Stuff’s Dinner Sorted

Stuff

Putting a tasty and nutritious meal in front of our families each night is important for many of us, but with work, school, and activities in the way, it can also become a stressful chore.

Dinner Sorted delivers a week's worth of delicious, satisfying recipes that should please the whole … View more
Putting a tasty and nutritious meal in front of our families each night is important for many of us, but with work, school, and activities in the way, it can also become a stressful chore.

Dinner Sorted delivers a week's worth of delicious, satisfying recipes that should please the whole family, sent to your inbox on Saturday mornings. As a bonus you'll also get our Weekend Baking collection, perfect for filling the baking tins, lunchboxes, or just that 4pm gap.

Sign up here it's free!
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969 days ago

Friday Feathered Friend

Nicholas Boyack Reporter from Community News

A lovely picture of a tarāpuka by Louise Thomas.
"Our beautiful endemic and endangered black-billed gull/tarāpuka (Chroicocephalus bulleri). Sometimes I've found them a little confusing to identify as in non-breeding plumage, black-billed gulls can have a two-coloured brownish and black… View more
A lovely picture of a tarāpuka by Louise Thomas.
"Our beautiful endemic and endangered black-billed gull/tarāpuka (Chroicocephalus bulleri). Sometimes I've found them a little confusing to identify as in non-breeding plumage, black-billed gulls can have a two-coloured brownish and black bill and red legs, but they always have a longer, finer bill than a red-billed gull - that said there is also a little variation in the bill sizes. The two species sometimes hang out together as well to make it more confusing. Bird #57 in 2022."

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941 days ago

Friday Feathered Friend

Nicholas Boyack Reporter from Community News

This week a picture from Rosa Marie.
"Here are a few 'birdie' shots while I was on the 10 minute boat ride at Zealandia on Friday! I had never been on the boat, so it was such a joy to see the shags from another angle."

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939 days ago

Aquamarine crystal

Jeff from Newtown

Happy Easter neighbor, I'm looking for a place in welly where I could get a piece of aquamarine crystal to attach to my keyring, any ideas please?

940 days ago

Enjoy a Ryman village now

Making the move to a Ryman retirement village while you’re independent allows you to enjoy everything that’s on offer.

With assisted living, resthome, hospital and dementia care also onsite, if your partner needs care before you, knowing the village care centre is only a short stroll away … View more
Making the move to a Ryman retirement village while you’re independent allows you to enjoy everything that’s on offer.

With assisted living, resthome, hospital and dementia care also onsite, if your partner needs care before you, knowing the village care centre is only a short stroll away will help ease this transition.

Care options vary between villages.
Learn more

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941 days ago

Eggs & bunny ears

The Team from Resene ColorShop Basin Reserve

Choose pretty patterned paper to make découpage eggs, then wrap them in bunny ear napkins to create a gorgeous table setting. Get creative with your Resene paint colours.
Find out how to create your own.

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941 days ago

Happy Easter

NumberWorks'nWords Kilbirnie

Happy, hoppy Easter to the whole family from the NumberWorks'nWords team.

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942 days ago

Professional Trouser Making Course

Joyce from Aro Valley

Up your game in trouser making, learn professional trouser making techniques at a Wellington High School Community Education Course in a 1 day course (9:30 am – 3:30 pm Saturday, 18 June.
Further details (course description), alternative dates and Registration at:
www.cecwellington.ac.nz...

942 days ago

Orange Light Setting

NumberWorks'nWords Kilbirnie

Following this week's government announcement, all of New Zealand has moved to the Orange setting of the traffic light system. We are pleased to be able to continue offering our reputable and high quality English and maths tuition to all of our students in -centre!

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942 days ago

Thinking about getting a deck?

Price Smart from

Either it is repanelling or building your deck from scratch, Price Smart can take care of it. From design to completion. Be relieved and insured your deck will be ready for the sunny days.
We also provide maintenance services such as water blasting and staining. Don’t hesitate and give us a call… View more
Either it is repanelling or building your deck from scratch, Price Smart can take care of it. From design to completion. Be relieved and insured your deck will be ready for the sunny days.
We also provide maintenance services such as water blasting and staining. Don’t hesitate and give us a call at 027 548 9818 or visit www.pricesmart.co.nz... to organize a site visit.

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943 days ago

Glass recycling resumes - update # 7 (13/04/2022)

Carl from Brooklyn Residents Association Incorporated

Good news from WCC! As far as glass recycling is concerned, it starts again from Monday the 18th of April. In time for Brooklyn's (Brooklyn, Mornington, Kingston, Aro Valley & Berhampore) turn at the fortnightly collections on Wednesday the 20th. Yay! Welcome back the drivers... … View moreGood news from WCC! As far as glass recycling is concerned, it starts again from Monday the 18th of April. In time for Brooklyn's (Brooklyn, Mornington, Kingston, Aro Valley & Berhampore) turn at the fortnightly collections on Wednesday the 20th. Yay! Welcome back the drivers... wellington.govt.nz...

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943 days ago

The Government wants to hear what you think about pokies

The Team from PGF Services - Wellington

📌Every year New Zealanders lose nearly $1 billion on pokies in pubs, clubs and TABs

📌Over 60% of pokie venues are in our most deprived communities

📌Over 30% of money lost on pokies comes from people experiencing harm from gambling

📌Pokies are designed to be addictive – they … View more
📌Every year New Zealanders lose nearly $1 billion on pokies in pubs, clubs and TABs

📌Over 60% of pokie venues are in our most deprived communities

📌Over 30% of money lost on pokies comes from people experiencing harm from gambling

📌Pokies are designed to be addictive – they play havoc with the reward systems in our brains

Minister Jan Tinetti MP has announced a review of Class 4 Pokies. To find out more, including how you can have your say, go to www.pgf.nz...

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943 days ago

Scrabble Day

NumberWorks'nWords Kilbirnie

Each year on National Scrabble Day, April 13th recognises a game played around the world. Originally named Lexiko and then Criss-Cross Words, Alfred Mosher Butts eventually settled on the name Scrabble. The amateur artist and unemployed architect developed the word game in the midst of the … View moreEach year on National Scrabble Day, April 13th recognises a game played around the world. Originally named Lexiko and then Criss-Cross Words, Alfred Mosher Butts eventually settled on the name Scrabble. The amateur artist and unemployed architect developed the word game in the midst of the depression. Still, it wasn’t until 1948, a final name change and a trademark that Butts finally began to produce the game.

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943 days ago

Wairarapa Balloon Festival and National Tweed Ride at Easter

The Team from Destination Wairarapa

This magical 5-day festival (Thursday - Monday) is fun for the whole family, with balloons filling our skies! Head outside to spot the balloons overhead in our big skies. Each morning balloons take off from a different town.
On Easter Sat 16th watch over 100 beautifully dressed riders in their … View more
This magical 5-day festival (Thursday - Monday) is fun for the whole family, with balloons filling our skies! Head outside to spot the balloons overhead in our big skies. Each morning balloons take off from a different town.
On Easter Sat 16th watch over 100 beautifully dressed riders in their tweed get-ups take off in the National Tweed Ride. 1pm is the start time in the centre of Greytown - details of all your Easter fun on the link below

wairarapanz.com...

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