Kiwiana - a box of memories

Right. So this is a cheat - I am not home... I haven't been home for five months now! But I have just started this new blog as a record of my adventures, now that JennyandJu have become Jenny and Juliet once more... and I felt the need to share a capsule of things from home, whilst actually sitting inside on a rainy London day. So I'm writing this in September, but it's dated March... the 15th of March. Because that was the day I left NZ.

It's not that I am homesick as such. I haven't been crying into my kippers and wishing I was at home. There's too much to do here, and I'm barely getting started on my "must do!" lists. In fact, I haven't even had kippers! Why has nobody offered me any kippers? Permit me to point out that the English are constantly eating kippers on TV and in all the finest literature, yet I have not been offered one since arriving. "Woof!" said Timmy. Maybe I need to wrangle an invite to a House Party at a country estate. Then I may refuse the offer of a kipper with gusto - for I of course I do not actually want a kipper, nor have I been searching for any establishments which furnish people with them.

Okay, forget the kippers.

Despite the desperate lack of stereotypical breakfast cuisine, I have been having a great time, and will go on having a great time. I haven't even gone out of Greater London yet! Even so, home is home, and sometimes there are things I miss: certain people, creatures, events, and milestones that I'm just not there to see. So this entry is counterating that - showing some the things I miss most, along with some of the highlights of the last year.

Hugs to you all!
ju

: : kiwi, jandals, pavlova, "eh bro!", paua, marmite, togs, hokey pokey, Billy T, number eight, What Now, kina, L&P, paddle crabs, Tangata Whenua, dighies, Maurice Gee, pounamu, buzzy-bee, tiki tour, pohutukawa, smoke free pubs, Footrot Flats, Edmonds cookbook, toi toi, shell rings, kea, tearooms, sheep, fush n chups, Watties, silver fern, All Blacks, gumboots, netball, bach, stubbies, pikelets, macpac, scarfies, kia ora, Aotearoa: The Land of the Long White Cloud. : :

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