Haven't been on the forum for a while but I had a great time with him when I was in New Zealand a month or two ago, did a lot of travelling around, saw lots of cricket and drank a lot of NZ's finest ales!
He's been looked after really well out there, staying with some really nice people and the club seem to have sorted him out very well too.
I stayed with some guys from Minehead who are in Melbourne for the winter, and Ellis has definitely had a much better deal than them in terms of cricket, accommodation, work, and pretty much everything else!!
I only went for the odd net with him but imagine his cricket would have come on a long way playing with/against the pros out there! Tom Bruce was a top bloke, we met him at the NZ team hotel a few hours before his debut t20 and he sorted us some free tickets, seemed a really sound guy.
Hope Ellis can do it for us again this summer!