Wellington Cuba Street Carnival

I was just in time for the Cuba Street carnival which is every 2 years, its a parade of floats with food and markets stalls in the day, bands and stuff. It was really nice to watch. Also included a picture of the view from my new place! This is on a nice sunny day, although at the moment its pretty chilly (for Netty standards)....still exploring the area, getting lost quite a bit but in a nice way.

Also included a short video clip of the carnival, although it was pretty dark when I took this.

Hello from Wellington!!

Kia Ora everyone!

Finally made it to Wellington after missing my connecting flight from Auckland. I think that they expect you to be super-athletes and run to the domestic terminal with all your bags (you have to re-check them all in) and make it in the record time of one hour (after spending most of it in the queue for customs). Customs, ah after arguing with the customs guy about global warming, he gave me the wrong stamp in my passport i.e. 6 months tourist instead of 3 years student. GREAT! good job I noticed though.....

Now at the university, not collapsed in a big heap yet, but after almost a day of travelling, well actually being stuck in a tiny seat wondering whether I am about to be the next DVT victim, I'm feeling OK. maybe it was the coffee or something.

Weather good. Cloudy but warm. Sez and Hels - wearing my new top! yeah!

Will keep you posted when something more exciting happens!

Cheerio

Netty

NAIL CITY

Thanks to Leanne and Nazia, I now have shiny metallic blue/green nails (no not like the algae) after a ladies that lunch session in Nail City, followed by some extremely nice sushi in Mai Bai. After an exhausting lunch time, we settled down to some lovely cakes afterwards from the Chinese bakery, which I couldn't eat all of, but enjoyed nonetheless. And here is a picture of our nails (without Nazia because she skives off at 3pm).

VORTEX @ Royal Exchange, Manchester

What can I say apart from 'Utterley splendid darling!'. It was very kitcsh from the beggining, fabulous costumes, accents and music!
Living in the 1920's must have been quite wacky! Heres a lowdown on The Vortex:

In Coward’s savage portrayal of 1920s cocktail society, Young plays musician Nicky Lancaster, who loses his fiancée to his sophisticated mother Florence’s toyboy lover. The Vortex (the title refers to the "youth vortex of beastliness") launched the then 25-year-old Coward’s career as a playwright and leading man.

Overnight critics were divided about the success of Young’s performance. While some praised the pop star for creating a touching character and bringing out the repressed homosexuality other actors in the role have “glossed over”, most agreed Young did not invest enough rage in Coward’s own “angry young man”. Some also noted that, while Young was brave to tackle such a complex role, he is simply too inexperienced to rise to the challenge. However, they were all impressed by the performances of Diana Hardcastle as his mother and the supporting cast in director Jo Combes’ production.

Anyway, we all had a good time. The food in La Vina was pretty poor though. I thin general disappointment, but the show certainly made up for it. And despite the hard press that Young Will received, I thought he was rather fab my dear! Oh do let me have a smoke now darling....

Quick hello!

Hiya folks, today I am hard at work but recovering from a hangover coutesy of Sarah and Chaopraya which was feeding us free tapas while we sat and chatted and drank lots of wine!

Almost forgot is was a working day, and finally got home (on my bike in the freezing cold) although the details are a bit murky.....

Off to see Vortex (with WILL YOUNG) tonight at the Royal Exchange, should be fun, going with work and eating in La Vina which is an ace Spanish tapas restaurant on Deansgate (been there a few times!). Apparently part of La Tasca, but the menu is much better (for us veggies) and the atmosphere is very relaxed, dark and candlelit.

Will update on the Will Young adventure.

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