Hey Cuz!
IN RETROSPECT, I probably shouldn’t have mentioned the rain even though it was pouring down outside the little roadside dairy somewhere near Whakamaru. The response I got was a glare from the bloke behind the counter.
“Australia’s hanging onto the High!” he said, neatly blaming my own country and exonerating his for the bloody awful weather.
New Zealanders notoriously have a collective chip on their shoulder about Australia and Australians. You see it in T-shirts for sale in tourist shops that say ‘My Dad says I can do anything except play for Australia’ and ‘I don’t care who wins as long as Australia loses’. I’m now going to let you in on a secret. There is no need for any of
