It's not just business – it's personal
Enjoy laid-back luxe at Colleen When you set foot in this special salon at 466 Karangahape Road, you’ll be stepping back 100 years. Well, when it comes to the original paint texturing the walls, the pink pressed tin ceiling, and the stunningly sympathetic work of architect Sue Hillery, that is. Beyond that everything about this…
It’s all friendly fun at the Ponsonby Bowling Club. Pssstt! Over here, behind the styley apartment blocks on Jervois Road. See this oasis of green? This right here is the country’s second oldest bowling club, established in 1893. Not that anything about the Ponsonby Bowling Club comes across as remotely old-fashioned, thanks to the brand…
Wake up and smell Papua New Guinea at Kokako Recently Josh Griggs, the mega-talented photographer we use for our Keith&Sandy campaign and blog, went on a trip with Kokako and the Fairtrade ANZ team to PNG. The purpose of their venture was to run a comprehensive 10-day education workshop in conjunction with Papua New Guinea…
Elias Hanlon was born right here in Ponsonby. This is where he went to school, and after graduating from St Pauls he still managed to keep things local, by landing his first job at the ASB on Jervois Road. Then in 1975 his entrepreneurial streak began to shine when he opened of one of Auckland’s…
Our neck of the wood is brimming with interesting folk and Hayden Glass, co-owner of the delightful second hand book store The Open Book is definitely one of them. Being a consulting economist by day didn’t stop Hayden realising his long-held dream of owning a book shop, so when the delightful cottage business he now…
Leafing through The Open Book. If you’ve ever fantasized about having a library room at home, then realised that you have neither a) the time, or b) the space, then have we found a literary fix for you. It’s called The Open Book and it’s situated rather too conveniently over the road from Prego on…
Six and 3/4 year-old local, Luca, gave us the inside running on what’s fun and yummy around here. And did anyone mention football…? (more…)
