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under threes free. Staglands Wildlife Reserve offers visitors the rare opportunity to connect with animals in their natural environment. Ideal for a family day out, visitors can feed the animals by either buying a bag of food for $2.50, or bring some bread, apples or carrots from home. There is also trout food available for $1.50, and the opportunity to feed some of the park’s giant eels. Weather permitting, have a free, off-road tractor-trailer ride between 11.30am-3.30pm and a tour at 12.45pm for those wanting to hear more about some of the animals. Have some lunch at Staglands’ cosy cafe, situated in an old log building with an open fire, or make the most of the barbecue and picnic areas on sunny days. AFTER DARK CHRISTMAS SING-ALONG Where: Sprig & Fern, Tinakori Rd, Thorndon. When: 7pm. How much: Free entry. Join in a old-fashioned Christmas sing-along at the Sprig & Fern. They will be serving the entire range of Sigrid Woolloff, of Siggy’s Pies, with some of her wares outside the Sprig and Fern, Thorndon. 1. Who preached at New Zealand’s first-ever Christmas service on December 25, 1814? 2. Which classic Christmas movie from 1946 contained the line, ‘‘Remember, no man is a failure who has friends’’? 3. Who sang the 1957 Christmas hit Mary’s Boy Child? 4. Which European group had a hit with a disco version of the same song in 1978? 5. In the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas, what gift was given on the second day? 6. What was Tiny Tim’s surname in the Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol? 7. According to the Gospel of Luke, who said: ‘‘He that is mighty has magnified me, and holy is his name’’? 8. Which famous Christmas song was first performed in the 1942 film Holiday Inn? 9. Who created the fictional Christmas character the Grinch? 10. The town of Bethlehem is under the control of which state: Israel, Palestine or Lebanon?

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Photo: KENT BLECHYNDEN/FAIRFAX NZ Shrek on show: Tarras School pupils Olly Perriam, 7, and Max Perriam, 5, and their grandfather, John Perriam, who owns Bendigo Station where Shrek the sheep was discovered, look at the Shrek exhibit at Te Papa.