Under The Martinborough Stars 

To most southern hemisphere inhabitants, the constellation of Orion is better known as the Pot. Simply because it looks like a saucepan. Our brain is very good at creating recognisable patterns in the strangest places, you’ll know what I mean if you have ever spent any time looking up at clouds and spotting ones that suddenly look like dinosaurs, hearts or bunny rabbits. The night sky is the same, our brains naturally recognizes shapes like squares, triangles, diamonds, crosses and saucepans.  … Continue Reading

Rapaki Farm Walk with a Difference

The first tramp for the year was also a last chance for the club to walk the Rapaki Farm Walk in its current form, as the farm has just been sold and the future of the walk is unknown. We met at Ruth and Pete’s property, which borders the north west corner of the farm, and from there, with the owner’s permission, we went on an extensive 3 hour ramble right round the whole farm. … Continue Reading

NEWS FROM FIRST CHURCH

Normally this month we would all be flat out baking, preserving, making jam and generally preparing for our stall at the Martinborough Fair.  But, Covid has thrown another curved ball and this has provided an opportunity to combine our efforts of the Rotary Country Fairs, Book Fair & Kirk Fairs into an                                      

Autumn Mini Market

Saturday 26^th March 2022

9am to 12 noon

First Church Hall, Weld Street, Martinborough … Continue Reading

Write your life with Martinborough Library

Popular writing classes return with sessions on personal essays and poetry

Our urge to revisit memories is a simple twitch of being alive: our hearts beat, our lungs breathe, our minds look back. But what truths we find can be evasive and ever-changing. What do these memories mean, anyway?

Here at the Wairarapa Library Service we offer a solution: get the past on the page and the truth—or a truth, at least!—will emerge. Our popular online writing classes return for 2022 with sessions dedicated to personal essay and poetry, two memory-driven genres with great power to sort our pasts. … Continue Reading