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Lying in the depths of your imagination"
-Crowded House
Ahh, Christmas in the southern hemisphere. Sweet as. My parting gift from Bangkok was being shortchanged by a cab driver (are cabbies ever honest?!), and flew to Hong Kong, then Auckland, then Napier where I was pleased to se Kevin again. In good Kiwi style we headed straight to the workingman's club for some local brews and the meeting of countless friendly Kiwis.
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Christmas in New Zealand featured many of the traditions and rituals from home with some delightfully notable exceptions: i) X-mas Day contains two full-on meals: lunch (turkey, ham, BBQ salmon and trimmings) and dinner (mostly same); ii) swimming in an outdoor pool, plus cricket with the kids, iii) numerous toasts and speeches. Met lots of great people, whose names I have already forgotten. No surprise there. I even pulled in some nice gifts of local wine, which, incidentally, is excellent.
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5 comments:
Great pictures.. enjoy the one with the "fast bowler" : ) Kids got a great arm. Not that i have played.. left that up to paternal unit.. he was a fast bowler for the West Indes.
PS: Pia, we watched New Zealand tie the West Indies in last night's 20/20 match!
lol... too funny as Thom was part of the WI team that played in the first tied test match in Australia.
That was in the days Sobers and Gibbs :) Sir Garfield Sobers... (have a funny story about him..)oh sorry did i mention that i grew up as a cricket brat : )
Ah, I found out that we misunderstood the results. NZ lost in a bowl-off (I think that's what it's called).
Not a cricket brat but hit a few good ones this afternoon, Thor
pps... the kid with the bat is terribly cute too! Hope he got a few centuries : )
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