Spring, Spring, Spring

Hi there

1 September.  First day of Spring, here in New Zealand.  Whenever the 1st of September comes around, I always want to start warbling "Spring, Spring, Spring" the song from the musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". 

It's a beautiful day today here in Wellington.  The birds are chirping, my daffodils have been flowering for several weeks, and  every centimetre of my washing that's billowing on the clothes line has the sun completely on it.

I'm happy.

Booking theatre tickets for Harry Potter, 2019

Hi there

I'd been breathlessly hanging on by the very tips of my fingernails over the last half-dozen months,  waiting for Melbourne bookings to open for the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child".   The hanging on by my fingernails was  hard, especially when, with impatience, I'd all but chewed those fingernails down to the quicks.

For the information of those folk living in the jungles of Borneo or perhaps pig-hunting in the Tararuas, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is a play in two showings.  It's been called Harry Potter Book 8.  It centres around Harry and Ginny's child, and Draco's child, both children attending Hogwarts School for Witches and Wizards.  The play was written with the approval of J.K.Rowling.  In both London and New York, ticket sales for the play have gone through the roof, with shows selling out sometimes a year in advance.

I sat hovered over my computer on the opening day of Melboune ticket sales. At one minute past 2 pm, I was number 3,034th in line to buy.  It turned out that, within a few hours, there were 40,000 ticket-buyers behind me.

And I'm not very good on buying things on the computer.  I usually take too long and the website leaves me behind, or I press the wrong button and lose everything, or I go forward when I should go back, or I forget something important and .... well, you get the idea?

But, whoopee, I got my tickets.  I had to take pot-luck where I sat but, hey, that doesn't matter.  I'm going to Part 1 on one night and part 2, the following night.  I could have chosen to go to two sessions in the one day but thought that might be a bit much.

Harry ....  here I come.  Australia, stand by, I've already packed my wand!


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2 September :  the cast has just been announced for Melbourne.  I see kiwi actor George Henare is in the show.
And... within the first week of bookings opening, 200,000 tickets had been sold.

   

Cute messages on artsy crafty purchases

Hi there

I love wandering around art and craft shops and country markets, and reading the little tags attached to some of the products.

At the Martinborough Country Fair I picked up some colourful leggings.  The tag read "To be worn at midnight when dancing beside a sparkling stream".

I bought a woolly hat in Queenstown.  A label told me the hat had been "knitted beside a warm fire on a cold Queenstown evening".

If I'm dithering over whether to purchase or not, a cute message on an attached label could swing the buy for me.

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above photo: Queenstown from buffet restaurant at top of gondola.

Daffodil Day - ATM Machine

Hi there

I love the ANZ Bank ATM machine in Willis Street, CBD Wellington.  They jazz up the look of the machine depending on what special day, week, occasion, or  happening is going on in Wellington or around the country.

Spring is here in two weeks and it will be daffodil time.  There is a special train going to Masterton, a couple of hours away.  People can board from Wellington and come home with armfuls of daffodils that they have picked themselves.  .The daffodil is the flower emblem for the folk involved with cancer patients and cures.  On the Friday, there are loads of collectors around Wellington.  Daffodils, either real, fake or a paper sticker are handed out to well-wishers who give a donation.

xxx

PS:  such lovely weather when we went swimming today, about 14c.  We got out of the water, looked happily across at each other, then went back into the sea for another dip!   The changing sheds might be, should be, perhaps will be ready for habitation by the end of August.