Karen’s Kiwi Christmas

Observer “unwraps Christmas in NZ” from the comfort of Karen Walker’s Waitakere Ranges home. “It’s a guaranteed white Christmas … the manuka trees are frosted with delicate white blooms so that the hillside appears covered in a dusting of snow.” To the ubiquitous mix of pavlova, pohutukawa and barbeque, Walker has added a 10ft tall Christmas tree to the roof of her house: “There would be no point in having the tree inside, we won’t come back indoors until March.”