Waitangi Day and Kipps First

A holiday tomorrow, Waitangi Day, the day on which we are celebrating Kipp's first birthday. Although his birthday is the 7th February (the same as our wedding anniversary - although a few years apart!!) it is easier to hold a party on the holiday as it allows people who would normally be at work to attend. It will be interesting over the next few years to see if Sarah and Joe follow this precedent. With Joe's parents out from the UK it will be a real family day.

As for Waitangi Day, it has, over the last few years, thanks to the usual "rent a mob" deteriorated into a farce. I don't blame the PM from not attending. I like most Kiwis will not be doing anything special except for Kipp's pre-birthday celebration. At the time New Zealand Day as it was known then when the day was first introduced was an ideal time to have done away with the Provincial Holidays but the opportunity was lost although most people would have gone berserk thinking that they had lost a day off.