I can hearing the terminal carping and the bumping of gums already!

It's a magic weekend for the 'new” Tauranga – the best cricketers in the world are playing at the Bay Oval, where manager Kelvin Green has stolen a march on other significant and less significant venues like Seddon Park. The park will be chocka. Our Indian friends from Te Puke to Katikati and points in between will ensure that.

There's the One Love Festival. I will be sitting on my deck watching cricket through the sliding doors while soaking up reggae, roots and soul drifting freely across the inner harbour. Katchafire, Stan Walker, Virat Kohli and Kane Williamson on the same bill. Wow! All this and Slash is in town on Friday.

But even before the first ball is bowled and the first notes boom from the stacks at the Domain, they'll no doubt be drowned out by the naysayers, the complainers and the cave dwellers.

Yes, it will be a loud weekend in Tauranga. No, you won't get to sleep by 9.30pm and yes, it might be difficult to get around. There will be street closures and detours and the odd carelessly discarded beer bottle on the roadside.

But it's a sure sign of a city growing up and there's no going back. So before you start complaining Tauranga, stop!

I Goldsmith, Bureta.