Merry Christmas to you all!! We're just winding down after the long weekend and thought we'd fill you in on our Kiwi Christmas! Check out our Christmas album. It's been a busy few weeks through Christmas party season so we were glad for a typically long 'Kiwi Christmas' weekend with food, BBQ's, Skype, wine, food, camping, food, sun, sea and sand……then a bit more food! We decided to spend Christmas at home in Raglan as we are off to Napier next weekend ...

So we've spent most of September settling into Raglan, sampling the local cuisine, exploring the local area and sorting out our home (check out the 'home patch' album). We tried the local takeaway this weekend; an Asian (Indian, Chinese and Thai in one!!). Tim's highlight was the cremated onion rings which were sold as onion bhaji and the accompanying bags of unknown 'sauces', one of which was definitely mint jelly!! As we work Monday to Friday, we've spent we...