Posts by Destination Wairarapa
2016 days ago

Featherston Booktown - 3 great events June 27-28th

The Team from Destination Wairarapa

Featherston Booktown is back! Don't miss their “Words in Winter” a series of drawcard literary events from June through to August in Featherston.
First up is “Aotearoa New Zealand, We Need to Talk” featuring three award winning and provocative writers held over the weekend of 27- 28 June 2020.

- Sarah Gaitanos and Linda Clark on Shirley Smith: An Examined Life The Kiwi Hall, 62 Bell Street, Featherston Saturday 27 June 2pm Sarah Gaitanos and Linda Clark explore Sarah’s recently released biography of Shirley Smith: An Examined Life

- Alan Duff – A Conversation with my Country The Kiwi Hall, 62 Bell Street, Featherston Saturday 27 June 4pm Alan Duff in a hard-hitting conversation with Featherston Booktown Chair, Peter Biggs about Aotearoa New Zealand as Alan sees it, thirty years on from when his first book Once Were Warriors was published

- Becky Manawatu – The magic of Auē. The Kiwi Hall, 62 Bell Street, Featherston Sunday 28 June at 11am Winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, Becky Manawatu, will be in conversation with her publisher, Mary McCallum, of Makaro Press, discussing why Becky’s prize-winning book (her first book), Auē, has been so successful.

Tickets from either the Masterton or Martinborough i-SITEs or on Eventfinda $20 plus ticketing costs.

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More messages from your neighbours
1 day ago

Poll: Is it ok to regift something that you have been given?

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

🎁 Holiday Gift Chat!

Do you ever regift?
What’s your take on asking for a receipt if a gift doesn’t fit?

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Is it ok to regift something that you have been given?
  • 79.2% Yes! It's better to regift what I don't need
    79.2% Complete
  • 20.8% No. It's the thought and effort that matters
    20.8% Complete
554 votes
29 days ago

Some Choice News!

Kia pai from Sharing the Good Stuff

Many New Zealand gardens aren’t seeing as many monarch butterflies fluttering around their swan plants and flower beds these days — the hungry Asian paper wasp has been taking its toll.

Thanks to people like Alan Baldick, who’s made it his mission to protect the monarch, his neighbours still get to enjoy these beautiful butterflies in their own backyards.

Thinking about planting something to invite more butterflies, bees, and birds into your garden?

Thanks for your mahi, Alan! We hope this brings a smile!

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13 days ago

FREE 10-liter emergency water bottles

Michael from Newtown

Merry Christmas -

I have around twenty, empty 10-liter distilled water bottles to serve as emergency water storage. I saved them for my friends, but they already have their own water supplies. Take as many as you like. Please respond to this notice if you are interested.

Best wishes - Michael