We had a chat with Kez and Soph this morning. Really great to catch up and find out how their Christmas had gone! Congrats to the two of you on your engagement!!

After hearing that Soph had quite a few bits of Galaxy chocolate for Christmas though, Louise was missing a little something – that’ll be Galaxy chocolate!! Cadburys has got a good hold on the market over here, albeit with some really tasty flavours – no just Milk, Whole Nut or Fruit n Nut here!! There is also a lovely tasting Kiwi chocolate from a company called Whittakers. However, there is NO Galaxy. Well, that’s not quite true, there’s a shop in Wellington called Cool Britannia which evidently sells it – we hadn’t been back to Wellington since we’d moved in to the cottage, so we never had found out just what they stocked.

Unfortunately, Bank Holiday had hit the Cool Britannia staff bigtime too – it was closed for the day! However, no worries, we’d gone to Wellington for some window shopping anyway……

After a cup of coffee and some cake at Mr Buns – dead cheap and gorgeous! – we headed off to the shops. We also ended up down the harbour front and bumped into a meeting of world unicyclists, mixed in with some Maori dancing and singing. Brilliant fun!! By the way, the brightly coloured spots on the front of Wellington library are nothing to do with any alcoholic intake, the had all been painted on!!

One of the people we’d met at the Christmas champagne breakfast worked in the Selfridges equivalent in Wellington, Kirkcaldie & Staines, and she’d mentioned that they had a christmas decs sale on. Guess what? Yep, “”we”” spent about an hour looking around there! I’m pretty sure Louise went around the shop at least 5 times. Mind you, I did miss out on a couple as I’d lost the will to live and gone outside for a not-so-quick smoke and window shop around the lower half of Wellington before returning and trying to look interested in the same decs I’d seen before I’d left. I could have sworn she hadn’t moved!!! LOL, they were nice decs though Margaret…………..

After a quick stop in Starbucks – and the feeling that they really do seem the same the world over – we stopped by Wellington Motorcycles to have a look what they had in store (from outside the windows anyway!). Nothing jumped out at us (lots of Harleys mind you), but worth having a look.