Cross Creek Blues Club

The Cross Creek Blues Club has had generous offers of support from many of the pubs and cafes in South Wairarapa. This is gratifying and it demonstrates not only the very special community spirit that exists in Wairarapa, but also the regard in which the Blues Club, and our musicians are held.

Wednesday 2nd March was our first club night for 2016. It was our privilege to be hosted by The White Swan Hotel in Greytown. We showcased American Blues Momma Ruth Wyand in her ‘Backroads, Bottlenecks and Blues Tour” in this beautiful and historic venue.

In April, Cross Creek Blues Club will have the pleasure of being the guests of The Village Café in Martinborough, which will be the setting for the return of Australian virtuoso of acoustic roots and blues, Nick Charles.
“His mastery of country blues is striking!” Rhythms Magazine. … Continue Reading

Did you know

CRUISE MARTINBOROUGH voted Jessica’s Living Room the Best Business in Martinborough with BP Service Station coming in second.

IT TAKES only four minutes to print the 2,500 copies of each edition of the Martinborough Star.

THE TEMPERATURE at the sun’s cor is fifteen million degrees centigrade

PRINCE Charles narrowly escaped death when skiing in the Swiss Alps in March 1988 . An avalanche swept away two of his party killing one narrowly missing the prince.

THE LAST Land rover Defender, number 2,016,333, has been produced at the Sohill factory which has been building Land Rovers since 1948. One Sohill employee , Tim Beckerton, has worked on the production line for forty years.

BRITISH Passports were written in French up until 1858. … Continue Reading

E-mail miseries

My E-mail in box is acting up and some E-mails sent to me are not arriving.
I do acknowledge all E-mails as I receive them so if you have not had an acknowledgement within a day you can presume that they have floated off up there into the great home of lost E-mails. Please resend it and let me know if you still do not gett an acknowledgement.
Mt current provider, Spark, acknowledge the problem and have spent some considerable time trying to track it down. However a satisfactory outcome seems to be elusive.
If you have sent an item and it hasn’t appeared this where the problem lay.
I intend to soon have a new provider when I will notify of the new address.

Everything is coming up daisies

The walls of Jaq’s bar have seen a lot over the years, but nothing quite like the fresh white daisies on a sky-blue background that now covers them. The bar stools have made way for a new kid on the block – Fresh as a Daisy – Kate Monks’ new commercial laundry.

Kate and husband Bill Butzbach opened their laundry on 1 December last year in the former New York Street West bar, which has also served as a sawmill, engineering workshop, brewery and country market. Since then they have been working seven days a week with a small team to get the business launched.

Kate’s daisy branding – in blue, white and yellow – sits alongside big safety signs and gas pipes on the walls of the renovated building. It’s a reminder that a commercial laundry has a lot of grunty plant behind its fresh facade. Her daisies are also on her laundry van and car that pops up all over town collecting used linen and towels from resorts and B&Bs and taking them back to base to make them – well – ‘Fresh as a Daisy’. And the laundry team is decked out in white, blue and yellow too. … Continue Reading