...December newsletter...

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December enews

It is warm and wet and everything is growing. No it doesn’t rain every day but Taranaki being on the west coast of New Zealand gets a lot of rain. It’s what the locals call ‘shitty spring weather’! The macadamia nuts continue to fall, everything is late this year, usually we have finished harvesting and are contemplating a big clean down of machinery and plant just after Christmas.

Our daughter Janet wants Christmas dinner over at the river as a picnic with crayfish on the menu. Sounds wonderful but as I warned her several past Christmas days have been wet. Christmas seems to be ‘on hold’ at present, we are waiting for Claire our youngest daughter studying in Melbourne to fly into Auckland on Monday and then after a couple of days with her grandparents both our daughters will drive down home to the orchard. Then it will feel like Christmas.

The first job then is to go over the back of the farm by the river and come home with a Christmas tree. None of those plastic or artistically manicured trees here. No, part of the fun is to clamber up hill sides and choose a seedling pine and roll it down to the trailer and bring it triumphantly home. Then comes the job of sawing it to length and carrying it in through thee French doors of the living room and putting it upright into a bucket, surrounding it with river stones and tying it back to stabilise it all. Whew! Let the decoration begin.

We have been busy with a wedding, the beautiful favours flew off with the bride and groom back to England. We wish Anna and Paul a wonderful day and a very happy Christmas back home with their families. Gift boxes of macadamia spread, mixed cracker biscuits, macadamia and chocolate chip biscuits and chocolate coated nuts  have been dispatched as corporate gifts. Other gift suggestions are made up ready to go. See our gift suggestion page.

Kiwis overseas are ordering for family members here in New Zealand and we take pleasure in passing on their love and good wishes. How wonderful the net is, magic for keeping us in touch and blurring the distances. Yet it is at this time that we all wish we could time and space travel and give those we love a big Christmas hug. We have two sons, Paul and David in the United Kingdom. We wish them and all who read this page the peace and joy of Christmas, may your dreams come true.

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