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December 25, 2025 1:01am by David Farrar

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Stephen Russell

Merry Christmas to all Kiwiblog readers, and especially to DPF: Thanks for all the work you have put in to provide us with a constant stream of interesting information, comment and analysis; and giving us a platform on which we can all contribute our own thoughts. Cheers!
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December 25, 2025 7:18am
- lastmanstanding
  
  I echo Stephen Russell. Merry Christmas to our host and all KBers. It will be a special Christmas for my darling wife of 52 years as we welcome our first grandchild Theodore. Wonderful times.
  
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  December 25, 2025 8:35am
  - Michael Johnston
    
    Congratulations!
    
    A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.
    
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    December 25, 2025 9:22am
  - mandk
    
    Many congratulations!
    
    The birth of my first grandchild was one of the most joyous occasions in my life, and I get the sense it is the same for you.
    
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    December 25, 2025 9:55am
Tomtoddy

Feliz Navidad to all Kiwibloggers.

Been reminiscing about Christmas’s as a kid. The best present I ever got was a cream and red tip truck my Dad made and painted for me as we had a huge sandpit on the farm. Spent hours carting sand from somewhere to nowhere, making suitable spluttering noises changing gears and pulling up hill.

Home made is usually the best. Adds authenticity to the love. Hope the kids and/or grandkids give you a heap of pleasure today.
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December 25, 2025 7:18am
mandk

“And his name will be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

Peace, and so forth.
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December 25, 2025 7:22am
Tauhei Notts

With the advances in technology a Karaoke machine can be bought nowadays for a small sum.
So it has been going since 6.20 a.m.
Grandchildren aged 5, 6, 7 and 8 can do no wrong, in Grandad’s eyes. Two darlings and two good boys.
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December 25, 2025 7:51am
- Biscuit
  
  Tauhei, let me know how you rate the darlings and the good boys when they disrupt your Boxing Day racing viewing tomorrow with more of their karaokeing!
  
  Moi, I take The Boss to the airport in the early morning and, on getting back, will have peaceful, uninterrupted, leftovers-stuffed viewing of the goings-on from Ellerslie and, if I can stomach the ‘commentary’, the first Big Bash League Cricket match of the summer…
  
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  December 25, 2025 10:06am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    A trainer mate will pick me up at Tatuanui to go Ellerslie. He has a couple of well bred first starters in Race One.
    My Christian name is Stephen. St Stephen’s Day is the day I go to Ellerslie and behave like a Saint.
    Yeah, right//
    
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    December 25, 2025 11:03am
  - pdm
    
    Merry Christmas Biscuit.
    
    I bit of advice from one of your elders.
    
    I watch all cricket at the moment with the sound off because the commentators are so abysmal.
    
    I bet it is the same dickhead at TVNZ that put John Campbell into his new job that appointed Scottie Stephenson to lead cricket commentaries.
    
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    December 25, 2025 11:24am
pdm

My father was not a self indulgent man but, I wonder if as a child growing up on the Isle Of Lewis, Scotland he ever thought that.

Born 25 December 1900.
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December 25, 2025 7:57am
- mandk
  
  I’m guessing your father was born into the Free Church of Scotland.
  
  If he was, Christmas would have been marked only by prayer and Bible reading, probably in Gaelic.
  
  Slainte Mharth!
  
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  December 25, 2025 8:12am
  - pdm
    
    Probably correct – we have a Gaelic Bible of his at home and when we first visited in 1977 his sister in law in particualar was a staunch church goer as were many of the more distant older relatives we met.
    
    My cousin who is still on the Island was also staunch with her Church until she had some sort of falling out with the vicar as did most of the congregation. She is still a regular attender but not sure if it is a different church or just a different parish.
    
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    December 25, 2025 11:28am
- Paulus
  
  Shortly after my Father was born in December 1900 in the East End of London, and who went to sea when he was 16 for many years.
  A wonderful Man and Father.
  Peaceful New Year, if we will ever get one.
  
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  December 25, 2025 8:14am
RRM

My new Xmas day routine is bacon and eggs on vogels toast for breakfast, then I take the dog for a run around down on Ocean Beach.

On the way I’ll stop at the fence where people leave teddy bears near where they found Coral Burrows, and add something small from my pile of things my kids no longer play with. For mostly selfish reasons – it reminds me life is good and I’ve really got very little to complain about 🙂

Then home to wrap the kid’s presents for when I see them all in a couple of days’ time.
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December 25, 2025 8:09am
- Biscuit
  
  I’m a softie like you, RRM: Christmas is only really Christmas these days if kids are involved…
  
  Little Coral would have been 28 this year…
  
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  December 25, 2025 10:12am
G152

Have a great day, eat drink and be Mary 🙂
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December 25, 2025 9:11am
David Garrett

Christmas greetings to all from Port Levy on Banks Peninsula, where I am spending my fourth Christmas with one of my closest friends and the usual eclectic group of his friends. I am an on cooking duty with a Greenie! (She’s very nice and we get on just fine so long as we avoid politics)

Merry Christmas to all.
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December 25, 2025 9:29am
- Biscuit
  
  Greater love hath no man, David, than that he should cook with, gasp, a Greenie!
  
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  December 25, 2025 10:14am
- zulumonster
  
  I’m guessing she was on the veggies and you were in charge of the real food?
  
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  December 25, 2025 7:35pm
Pheobe

“Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. May your days be filled with love and laughter, and may this festive season bring peace to your heart, warmth to your home, and happiness that lasts throughout the year ahead. It is also a time to remember those who are no longer with us, whose light continues to shine in our hearts. Best wishes for 2026.”
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December 25, 2025 11:03am
alex Masterley

Merry Christmas all from chez Masterley.
We have just had the present ceremony with moi receiving a splendidly loud shirt and maltesers which everyone seems to want. All other recipients of gifts, wife and offspring declared themselves content with their booty.
So we progress to a late lunch with lashings of bubbles on top of the bubbles already consumed.
Enjoy yourselves.
AM
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December 25, 2025 12:58pm
redqueen

Happy Christmas, everyone!
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