Happy New Year!

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After Christmas in Blenheim, we spent a few days in Mapua at Duncan's parents. His Dad has just got a new boat, so we went out for a trip in Abel Tasman, which was great. We stopped for lunch on one of the many beaches and then headed out for a spot of fishing. I was VERY excited to catch a fish (the first one caught in the new boat) :-)

We were back on the farm at the weekend, and I had my first ride in a tractor - it was a very civilised experience - I'd gone to take Duncan some lunch, and had made use of the picnic set we got from his sister for Christmas, so we were sat in the tractor cutting grass and drinking squash out of picnic wine glasses - who thought farming was a tough life?!

We went to Dunedin to see in 2008, there was a band playing and at midnight there were fireworks, all 13 hours before the UK started celebrating. Got to bed around 1:30am and was up again at 4:30 to go and milk cows - who said farming was just a picnic ... ?!

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