Fruitbowl - Fresh Ideas from Hawke's Bay

Here's one for all you accountants here in Hawke's Bay and further afield... You might have heard of a little accounting software company called Xero started by a few years ago by local Bay boy. Well, last time I looked that little company was worth about $1.5 billion. That's right - Xero is seriously disrupting the accounting world and a lot of people are getting excited by the possibilities... Read more

ideaschool is reaching out to creative spirits in the community with an offering of short courses. The night classes and weekend workshops provide an opportunity to learn basic-level creative skills in a professional tertiary environment without the stress of assessments and deadlines.  The tutors will be ideaschool staff or top graduates of related EIT programmes. The venue is ideaschool on... Read more

Former children from St Hilda’s and Abbotsford Homes will be special guests at this Saturday’s opening of an exhibition at the Central Hawke’s Bay Settlers Museum in Waipawa. The exhibition St Hilda’s and Abbotsford:  Our Children’s Homes has grown out of a book by Dr Kay Morris Matthews, an internationally recognised academic historian and a research professor at EIT. A... Read more

Saw this video from Tipene last night. Looks like a nice place ... ... Read more

You might have noticed that Fruitbowl has been getting hit pretty hard with a lot of spam comments lately. The site has a WordPress plugin called Akismet which normally does a fantastic job of filtering out spam comments. The site receives about 2000 spam comments per month. Usually nearly all of them are filtered but for some reason lately more are getting through. So it's probably a problem... Read more