User:Robin Patterson

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My home (home also to my wife and occasional cats and - for some years - children) had for 44 years been in Plimmerton, Porirua City, Wellington Region, New Zealand. But it's too steep for septuagenarians to look after and was put on the market in March 2020. Now sold; we have moved to "Friendly Feilding", where we are much closer to three of our grandchildren and less than 15 minutes' walk from where they often play sports.

And, no, the land of the Kiwi is NOT part of Australia. It is Middle-earth, a country of a little more than 5 million people, home and/or birthplace of:

• Sir Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings, King Kong, etc)
• Michael Campbell (US golf open and world matchplay champion in 2005),
• Sir Bob Charles (top left-handed golfer),
• Lydia Ko, top female golfer
• Helen Clark, UNDP administrator,
• the Horseman of the [20th] Century,
• Sarah Ulmer,
• Dame Sophie Pascoe,
• Dame Lisa Carrington,
• the All Blacks, and
• Sir Edmund Hillary, joint conqueror of Mount Everest

and the only country outside USA to have successfully defended its hold on America's Cup TWICE. It has reclaimed its "Guinness Book" title of having the world's steepest street.

It was the first country to introduce a minimum wage and to give women the vote.

Its superior food-growing efficiency negates food-miles. And recently the country that squashed its first Covid19 outbreak.

Hello, you out there!