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Kiaora Jenny,

I hope you've survived your first year and a bit in Aotearoa. Guess you've learned to live with the jibes from those who live on NZ's West Island. Snide remarks about sheep in NZ, coming from a place that celebrates sheep stealing in it's notional, national song. Why, they are just jealous, we all know it's too dry & arid to grow proper sheep. And, they don't know what a
gumboot is Jandal that's related to thongs. It's enough to give me a gut's full. You just have to put up with them - she'll be right!
No-one has "turned the light out" yet, though they almost did a couple of months back, when hydro-lakes were at very low levels. There were still a heap of folk there when I last crossed Foveaux Straight ten months back.

Serious Bit
Folk Music still seems to be active. As well as Mike Moroney's Kiwi Folk site which GUEST mentioned above, John Archer runs a fine one at NZ Folk Song

Alas, no cold roast mutton to gnaw on, will have to put up with local junk food for an early morning snack - sigh..

Cheers - Sam - Rakiura