Clifton, Veritas or Lie Neilsen ?

[Routermonster]

Hi Richard

Welcome to the forum. Glad you guys buy British!

You kiwis are in SWMBO's & my thoughts a lot these days.

My elder daughter has been finished working in NZ for a year (as a chef in Palmerston North - very long hours!). She's travelled whenever she has had any free time and she loves your country. She's just done a solo tour of South Island in her ancient car (whale watching, horse riding, etc); now she's off to Auckland & Bay of Islands with friends for a few days. She'll soon return to the UK via Sydney, Los Angeles and New York. She leaves behind many friends. The good news is - we'll be seeing her again in a couple of weeks' time . We've kept in touch via phone and internet, so we feel we know the place quite well now!

Les

 

[RichardL]

Hi Les

Small world. Probably went to the resturant your daughter worked at - I live in Palmy. Glad she is enjoying her time here and hope she has a good trip home.

I'm actually English, have lived in NZ most of my life but still have connections with and an affection for the UK and have been back a few times and have thoroughly enjoyed the trips.

I'm not sure how many here buy British as British made is so hard to find. Certainly in the tool line, since the demise of Record and the move of Neil Tools (Spear and Jackson Eclipse etc) to Hong Kong ownership there seems to be very little on the shelves. Most of the recent tools I have bought have been over the Internet from Flinn Garlick who stock most of the remaining Sheffield tool makers products and from Ashley Iles. It'd be nice to see Clico (Clifton) prosper and go on to extend their line-up of tools.

Cheers

Richard