It seems I joined this place years ago then lost it. Anyway I’m a retired winemaker from New Zealand. Recently moved from Hawkes Bay to Wairarapa, (if you don’t know where that is Google it! 
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Welcome back! I hope you will stay now that you have found us again.
that was quick!! - welcome from across the Tasman! one of the best sites I know and I’ve been around a few!
forgot to mention you apparently can’t send pm for a few weeks - yea a drag but that’s it - the gang are waiting to meet you at Leisurely scribbles and the Candy bar and guess who is running the candy bar? these are our two most prestigious clubs and you are instantly a member! - you have our modus operandis!
Hello there…welcome back
Hello Michael
Welcome back.
Hello Michael,
Welcome back to the forum even thought I don’t know you.
Let’s hope you stay this time. Keep chatting to us.
Googled both places. I like googling places. 
Welcome!
Good morning Mike matey and welcome back.
Nice to see you here again Cidey and that the lifeboat has kept us afloat even after all these years .
Yay Ciderman I asked Gummy to fetch you.
Hope to see you in my bar or Scribbles.
Sweetie X
I like lollipops.
Welcome back Ciderman.
It will be nice to have a New Zealander on here. Much classier than the Aussie lot. ;-)
Hi Ciderman … welcome back!
Hello Ciderman,
Waving 
from here in Yorkshire, England. Hope you stick around, its a great place to be (most of the time) 
Hi, I spent a year in NZ in the early 80s, great place, god knows why I came back.
I’ll dug out the fush and chups to celebrate your safe return.
couldn’t learn the language?
I got lost again!! I must have the wrong map! Oh wait! I haven’t got a map!
Thanks all of you.
heh ciders - isn’t the national emblem of NZ the drunken wood pigeon??
Hello and welcome. I am new here as well.