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..found a story that I’d seen in on the NZ Prime News about a Kiwi musician, Don McGlashan, (whom I saw in the Comedy Festival a few years ago in The Front Lawn), who’d ridden his bicycle into an open car door, (somewhat ironically in Auckland’s Dominion Rd, which featured in a hit song he’d…
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.. we don’t for that matter. One of my more amusing NYE experiences was in Christchurch a few years ago, when the weather was so miserable the council cancelled the planned public celebrations and everyone went home early. New Year’s Eve is just not that big a deal. However, ticking over into 2007 does give…
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It rains in NZ
Let me say that it can rain in New Zealand. But, by prior arrangement with Elizabeth, not where we were. Whilst we were in Auckland in rained in the South Island – one place had Melbourne’s average annual rainfall in one day – and when were in the South Island it rained in Auckland. However…
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