Chow

Wellington can be a very small place!

Headed into town on Saturday night with various friends who were down for a campaign planning day for National, and around 15 of us decided to head to Chow on Tory Street for dinner.

Had a few drinks at the bar, and then they showed us to our table. As we are moving around it, Auckland Girl points out to me that the person at the table next to us (and backed onto us) looks like Labour Party President Mike Williams. Sure enough it was the Labour President and Head Office staff. We quickly whisper around the table to be careful in the conversations. A few minutes later in an exchange with one of the HQ staff, she confirms that they had much the same conversation – along the lines of “Hell, looks who is being seated next to us, so watch what you say”.

Sadly we had too much of a fun time to actually listen in to any conversations, and ended up heading off around three hours later having enjoyed some great food and champagne.  Just after I left, I got texted to say EMPU Secretary Andrew Little had just arrived and was in conversation with the National Party lawyer who had served papers on the EPMU the day before.  I was tempted to head back, but by then was settled in at Mac’s Brewery, but always amuses me how Wellington is such a very small place.