Feeling Festive

So far the build up to Christmas has been rather low key but it got a bit of a boost on the bus one morning this week.

To top it off the driver was wearing a Santa hat too, nice.

On the way to work

The saying goes that nothing beats Wellington on a good day, those being few and far between.  But every now and then you see something that makes even a bad day seem a bit special.  On the way to work yesterday I spotted this guy, you couldn't see the surrounding hills, let alone the horizon but the harbour was flat and he was out rowing in the mist.

Dumplings!

When I moved to NZ people kept asking me did I miss Melbourne.  Apart from people what I missed most was dumplings.  Now, thanks to the information sharing network at work I have found them, very close and very quick so easily do-able during a lunch break.  So last Thursday I went to try them out.  They don't look like much but they taste fabulous and have fixed my craving for a little while.