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No New Zealander leaves the country for any length of time without knowing they’ll miss their soaps.
This is not to refer to Shortland Street, which seems to screen the world over anyway, or any of the television serials, but the outside goings-on of our wildlife.
Flocks of tūī are always broadcasting one another’s business – comprehensively, given they’ve got two voice boxes each –