Koruru

Twenty years ago I arrived in New Zealand to start a new job. Having never lived outside Yorkshire, I flew out leaving behind my girlfriend, friends and family to join a company most people had never even heard of in a country I could barely find on a map. I still work for the same company and married the girlfriend :)

This mask (koruru) hangs in the house as a permanent reminder of three great years in New Zealand. It's a great and beautiful country, and we met some wonderful people in our time there. In an unexpected way Blipfoto has made the memory all the more poignant because there's so many contributors from NZ that hardly a day goes by that I don't see a photo from some place I recognise.