Sometimes, even in retirement, the business of life just catches up with you and despite ivy clippings waiting to be added to the compost heap, admin begging attention (any excuse not to do the admin) and windows streaked with snail visiting cards it becomes necessary to push it all aside and go ‘tramping’. Tramping is the New Zealand equivalent for our ‘hiking’, so descriptive, I just love using it. Lizziluv is visiting us from Indonesia for a week and she has been dying to go walking freely, inspecting all creatures, great and small, like only Lizzi can, especially the birds, something pretty much impossible in busy Djakarta. We also have the new Garmin GPS to test out (it seems so different to the old one) before we leave for Aus in June. So we packed a
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