NZ Baby Blog

I wish that there was a reliable source of info on good (and bad) cafe’s to take small children to in Wellington.

At the weekend we went to Super (old Island Bay Cafe) in the main shops, Island Bay village on the Parade. The food was good, and they have a nice big “fenced” play area inside, with quite a few toys, and some toys in the “garden” out the back as well.

Our boy is 3, so was perfect for him. If you’re breastfeeding it’s not so good. On a fine day you could get some privacy out the back, otherwise it’s  all open plan and no easy chairs or couch anywhere so you need to have your technique sorted for the unsuported feed.

They do have a kids menu, fluffy was ok, and reasonably quick to come.

As it’s on the main Island Bay bus route, if you have a bus fiend like I do then there is a bit of entertainment out the window as well.

Renovations have this tendency to start off kinda small, and escalate - well mine do anyway. By the time you’ve found that the wall needs rebuilding, and the floor joists replacing (on 2 levels) and thus reflooring must happen in 1/3rd of the house, redoing the whole house seems like a good idea.

Nearly 2 months later and we’re still squatting with relatives (thank you thank you for having us), and wondering why when the rest of us are having to work, tradesmen, or more to the point, tradesmen’s suppliers seem to be able to take the whole of January off.

So we wait for skirting boards to  be run - something about a machine breaking down, and cornice to get dry (plaster cornice takes a week apparently), so that the last week of real work can be done.

In the meantime we show people about from time to time, and imagine how nice it will be to be back in our own house - but I’m not booking the movers just yet!