Paul & Karyn Gardiner
CHRISTCHURCH
NEW ZEALAND
24 November 2000
Dear Friends and Family,
Well, it has been an intense and hectic year, but a cracker. We’ve both new jobs, we’ve almost finished the decorating, I secured my Permanent residency - and of course, we had THE WEDDING.
The Millennium was a great start to the year, and friends from the UK were over here to help us see it in. So, we made the effort by celebrating the New Millennium in fancy dress. We slept in our cars before going to the beach to watch the first sunrise of the Millennium. No such luck – it rained!!!. So, we piled back to the flat, drank Champers and watched the rest of the world do what we were then recovering from. Then, early in the year, we both moved back into the jobs we revel in. Karyn is Tour Guiding again, and ramping up for the peak summer period. Myself, I joined a small New Zealand IT company called QTech, that specialises in telemetry and remote monitoring. I am overjoyed to be back selling in the IT Industry. My customer base is in the North Island, so I get paid to drive around one of the most beautiful countries in the world!!!!!!
Sorry about the mistake in last year’s letter - we were of course married on 5 August 2000, not 1999! We were overjoyed so many folk came over for it. I’ve never known a wedding to last 6 weeks, but it was “party party” every night from the moment folk came into New Zealand. The wedding day was an absolute blast, and as you can see from the piccy above, we have some fantastic photographs. I’m in the process of setting up our web pages to show off the wedding photos, but it’s taking time. In the meantime, I have many of the photos scanned, so if you’d like these, please just let me know.
More farming stories and injuries to add to the repertoire. In October, I ripped a nail off while we were all tailing lambs. This is the gory process of cutting off a lamb’s tail to protect lambs from their botties pooping up and so catching flies and other parasites. As I looked at my nail hanging off, and the lambs screaming, I saw I was the lucky one!!!! “There but for the grace of God go I…….”
Well, that’s it for another year. So Karyn married a Scotsman but lost her Scottish name. In other words, folks, please note our new email addresses.
All our love and best wishes to you, and Good Tidings for the Festive Season.
Paul and Karyn
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