{"id":36348,"date":"2019-01-10T06:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36348"},"modified":"2019-01-09T20:13:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T07:13:08","slug":"holiday-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/01\/10\/holiday-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Festive goodies<\/p><\/div>\n

Sadly, the holiday is over now, but it was fun while it lasted. And I have the pics to prove it. Here are a wee few to be going on with. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Fun With Food<\/strong>
\nFoodie goodness is a big part of the festive season, from fruitmince pies to turkey with all the trimmings. As it happens, I did make fruitmince pies and a few more festive goodies….<\/p>\n

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A Southern Hemisphere Christmas meal for midsummer…<\/p><\/div>\n

But it can be far too hot\u00a0in the midst of the Southern Hemisphere’s midsummer to spend hours with a hot stove to achieve an ‘all the trimmings’ extravaganza.<\/p>\n

So we went for salmon fillets with some salads of awesome—which worked pretty well, overall. Just sayin’ \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Lake Heron<\/p><\/div>\n

Fun With the Great Outdoors<\/strong>
\nOne of the great things about having the Christmas-New Year holiday at midsummer is that it’s a great time to get outdoors.<\/p>\n

Despite some rain at times, we still managed to get out and about.<\/p>\n

Initially we went to Lake Heron, which is close to the country I explored in my Driving To Edoras<\/a> post. Grey skies aside, it’s a tranquil spot, even if the mountains were obscured by cloud.<\/p>\n

The next day, we did a number of bush walks, in which fern, mountain beech forest, and swift-flowing creeks all featured.<\/p>\n

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And finally checked out the mighty Rakaia Gorge.<\/p>\n

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\nIf anyone wonders what the Telimbras River in The Wall Of Night<\/a> series *might* look like, the Rakaia makes a useful starting point.<\/p>\n

I guess some of you may be holidaying still, in which case, I hope you’re having a great time.<\/p>\n

But do spare a few seconds to commiserate with the rest of us who’re back workin’… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Sadly, the holiday is over now, but it was fun while it lasted. And I have the pics to prove it. Here are a wee few to be going on with. \ud83d\ude42 Fun With Food Foodie goodness is a big part of the festive season, from fruitmince pies to turkey with all the trimmings. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36348"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36357,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36348\/revisions\/36357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}