The site I have been wanting to build since around 2001 has finally arrived. www.meateaters.co.nz Back at the turn of the century eating meat was not a very fashionable thing to do – it was done in moderation, usually when you went to a restaurant or to a friend’s place for dinner. Every Thursday night […]
So, after my post about McDonalds buying land in Kaikoura I was contacted by the good folk in Balmoral Auckland. They have been fighting to stop a McDonalds restaurant open in their suburb. TV3 ran a story tonight that said the McDonalds application has been approved – with one proviso: that they aren’t allowed to […]
I’ve just flown back from Auckland and have two big ‘ups’ for Air New Zealand. Firstly there’s a huge thankyou to the flight crew that painted their bodies and appeared naked for the Air New Zealand video safety message. It is absolutely brilliant and a better-than-perfect way at instructing passengers on the safety measures and […]
While I’m in the mood for revealing bad customer service here’s a doozy that slipped by me. (Thanks G forpointing it out.) Dave Carroll, a musician from Halifax flew United Airlines to Nebraska where his band, Sons of Maxwell were playing gigs all week. After the plane landed Dave looked out his window to see […]
There’s no gingernut tastes quite the same Ask for Griffins gingernuts by name… So went the jingle when Griffins was the premier biscuit company in New Zealand. With progress came redundancy and closure. The famous Griffins biscuit factory in Lower Hutt closed at the end of last year and production was moved to Auckland. Now […]
There’s a recession on but the staff at Wagamama don’t know this. Our family turned up there last night around 6.15pm for a quick meal. The place was buzzing and there were empty tables. Excellent – no waiting. Wrong – we were turned away. A young woman told us, and the others waiting at the […]