Busy busy!
I've had a busy month, with work as well as stuff on around Wellington, including the film festival and a few shows.
My team at work went on a couple of away days with the Auckland based part of the group. We headed on a road trip to New Plymouth to meet up for 2 days of presentations and activities. The place we stayed at was a bit more budget than even the women organising it were expecting - think of somewhere that you might have gone on school camp, with outside loo outside shower blocks! Not to mention only 4 showers for the entire team! Oh dear! But once over the initial shock the days went quite well. Some interesting talks, no scary motivational speaker of any kind, and getting to know the people from the Auckland office. Hopefully next time we'll have indoor loos...
The Wellington Film Festival has also been and gone. We went to see Animation for Kids, with a series of about 6 or 8 short films. Some whimsical, some with a message for the kids (especially heavy in the Canadian government sponsored ones). There was an excellent short about an underwater sheep farm, and a sweet one about a unicycle tall enough to reach the moon. Also saw a French film called Priceless which stars Audrey Tatou (from Amelie) as a gold-digging women on the hunt for a sugar-daddy, when she mistakes a hotel barman for her next target. Saw some digital animation shorts, a Japanese movie, a documentary about growing corn in the US, one about tea in China. The two documentaries were really good - I have been inspired to head to the local tea shop to stock up.
As well as the film festival we saw Aurelia’s Oratorio at the theatre. We saw it back in London and loved it, and it was just as good the second time around. Ian McKellan in King Lear was last weekend, and it was really great. And coming up we’ve got Circus Oz, and Snow Patrol. I’ll end up cultured out by the end of September but it’s a good time of year here! !
My team at work went on a couple of away days with the Auckland based part of the group. We headed on a road trip to New Plymouth to meet up for 2 days of presentations and activities. The place we stayed at was a bit more budget than even the women organising it were expecting - think of somewhere that you might have gone on school camp, with outside loo outside shower blocks! Not to mention only 4 showers for the entire team! Oh dear! But once over the initial shock the days went quite well. Some interesting talks, no scary motivational speaker of any kind, and getting to know the people from the Auckland office. Hopefully next time we'll have indoor loos...
The Wellington Film Festival has also been and gone. We went to see Animation for Kids, with a series of about 6 or 8 short films. Some whimsical, some with a message for the kids (especially heavy in the Canadian government sponsored ones). There was an excellent short about an underwater sheep farm, and a sweet one about a unicycle tall enough to reach the moon. Also saw a French film called Priceless which stars Audrey Tatou (from Amelie) as a gold-digging women on the hunt for a sugar-daddy, when she mistakes a hotel barman for her next target. Saw some digital animation shorts, a Japanese movie, a documentary about growing corn in the US, one about tea in China. The two documentaries were really good - I have been inspired to head to the local tea shop to stock up.
As well as the film festival we saw Aurelia’s Oratorio at the theatre. We saw it back in London and loved it, and it was just as good the second time around. Ian McKellan in King Lear was last weekend, and it was really great. And coming up we’ve got Circus Oz, and Snow Patrol. I’ll end up cultured out by the end of September but it’s a good time of year here! !