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No more apple picking!!!!

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March 29th 2006
It’s been a long time since i've written anything on here!! Since I've last written an entry I have been working picking apples which I thank god is now over, I have calluses on all my fingers and am bored of being told that apple picking is a highly skilled job and you need to "turn and twist" them off a tree instead of pluck them!! It's Bloody hard work for crappy money however ive managed to ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more