Waiting for lunch

Trip of Giants - 90th Birthday

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July 3rd 2010
After a failed attempt to stay up for one of the soccer quarter-finals, I was pretty tired and slept in. Not as much as Joseph though, who stayed asleep in bed til 10am, unusual for a boy who is normally up at the crack of dawn. The morning was quiet and brief, before we all got kitted out for lunch at the Hinton Winery. There we dined with Ky's 90 year old grandmother, who coped remarkably we ... read more

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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