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A English actor was quoted in the 1960s as saying “I once visited New Zealand, but it was closed”.

I know how he feels.

Just after Xmas, there’s a huge sucking noise and a version of musical chairs for 4 million people – plus a few hundred thousand tourists – ensues.

I think that most of them go to Nelson.

So it’s only reasonable that the local ISP down here closes up shop and goes somewhere else to avoid the crush.

I guess they took their WiFi server with them, because their hotspot – which I can access from outside the Internet cafe – doesn’t bloody work anymore, either.

Sod ’em.

And you can’t buy any decent fish in the biggest fishing port in the southern hemisphere.

Guytons, the really good fish people, have 3 suppliers.

Two of them have packed up their nets and buggered off elsewhere until the end of January.

Sod ’em, too.

“The one who’s still fishing isn’t very good” she said. “We just take what he can give us”