Hope your Xmas and January weather isn't 'too' cold, depressing and dull........
 

Another 1hour 40mins at work then I'm off home to finish my packing and head off to the airport for Christmas in San Francisco, a few days later we're off to New Zealand for a month of their SUMMER.....! :king:

sum⋅mer1   /ˈsʌmər/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [suhm-er] Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun
1. the season between spring and autumn, in the Northern Hemisphere from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, and in the Southern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox.
2. the period comprising the months of June, July, and August in the U.S., and from the middle of May to the middle of August in Great Britain.
3. a period of hot, usually sunny weather: We had no real summer last year.
4. the hotter half of the year (opposed to winter ): They spend the summers in New Hampshire and the winters in Florida.
5. the period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline: the summer of life.
6. a whole year as represented by this season: a girl of fifteen summers.
–adjective 7. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of summer: Iced tea is a summer drink.
8. appropriate for or done during the summer: summer clothes; summer sports.
9. having the weather or warmth of summer: summer days in late October.
–verb (used without object) 10. to spend or pass the summer: They summered in Maine.
–verb (used with object) 11. to keep, feed, or manage during the summer: Sheep are summered in high pastures.
12. to make summerlike.


Back to work on the 26th January :smug:

Hope you all have fun :thumb:

lucky bugger :thumb:

have a good time :mad:

Plenty time to drum up a few more songs, Sting ;)

Have a fantastic time :thumb:

Have a good trip Si. jammy sod :D

Saved up all my holidays from this year (apart from a week in May and a few days in August) so it's been a loooooooong year and now feel like me & mrs SiPie need the break

Have a good one ye'all

Over and Out :D

I hate you even more now ;) :D

Have a GREAT trip :luxhello:

Did the same in 1999/2000.

Came back from surfing in boardshorts to surfing in full Winter rubber in Feb in the UK - I nearly died!

Enjoy - I LOVE NZ!!

Sounds cool, but I would rather have xmas with all my family and friends around me in a cold dark blizzard in Blighty over xmas than be jeting off round the world.
Have a safe journey dude - and have a great time. If you go to Auckland, say hi to Helen for me :D I'll email her and tell her you're on your way :thumb:

Good one :thumb: Enjoy the sun over Christmas :thumb:
I can do one every Christmas holiday to warm India or Carribland, but I don't. My kids prefer Christmas in Great Britain. They don't want to miss out on the family feel and celebrations from their dad's side of big family. They say Christmas is for being all cozy and warm at home. I don't beg to differ either TBH.

It's not that warm there at the mo, even in Dorkland, 13c, ex-Helengrad is 15c. Either way you will enjoy it there...lived there for 9 years, Wellington.

You do realize I have a month to figure out how to rob everything out of your house :D :p

Have a nice time !

And dont the rest of you get too jealous, remember, this is man who most of the year lives in "Scotland", he needs to see the sun at least once a year or he will look like the things from underground in "I Am Legend".

Bon Voyage.....You lucky sod!

I'll be spending Christmas morning on my local beach :D

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