featuring a stuffed penguin named Humphrey

If you're ever in the area and have a spare half-hour the Lyttleton Museum is well worth popping into. It doesn't tell you that much about anything but does so rather erratically and amusingly and with old clothing-store mannequins dressed in military outfits and fake beards which do not quite conceal their full, red lips and womanly cheekbones. The stances are somewhat unmilitary, too. Little caption-cards saying that something was woven "ages ago" are a nice touch along with several successive council member photographs taken four years apart in which one woman is wearing the same dress in both her appearances. Maybe it came with the position. The toilets are oddly sinister too, perhaps because they reminded me slightly of my paternal grandmother's bathroom though that might just have been the similar chilliness and ancientness of the fittings. The Rough Guide describes the museum as having "the air of a long-neglected attic" which is right on the money, especially considering the old PC on a shelf in the toilet with a K6 processor sticker on the front of the case. Well worth the few voluntary dollars we popped into the donation box although it's technically free to get into.

NZ does trees very well, too.