Andrew Laing
We note that earlier in the week one of our regular walkers, Andrew Laing, passed away. Andrew’s health has been up and down for many months but no matter what his state of health he always turned up to walk both on Wednesdays with the Fast Footers and on Friday with the Friday walkers. We will all miss our walking friend and walking companion. We will remember him at his best, out in the front group full of conversation sharing his incredible knowledge on all subjects most not really related to walking whilst helping the other fellow amateur navigators to ensure that we were still on route. Our condolences to his wife Janice who walks with the Pleasure Pacers and the rest of the Laing Family. Rest In Peace Andrew.
Last Weeks Walks
These walks were partly within the Botanical Gardens and partly within the nearby streets and not so nearby streets. The walks were attended by 5 SS’s, 26 SS’s and 12 FF’s making a total number of 43 walkers. We were a bit surprised that a near empty Picnic Café complained that there were a few more walkers wanting coffee that we had advised them that there would be. I’d bet that they would have been more upset if we had got it wrong the other way round.
On Thursday, 8 Thursday Crawlers completed in the near dark one of our previous SS’s walks around the streets of Khandallah. On Friday a group of 16 Friday Walkers completed a quite long walk starting at the New World carpark in Tawa and then heading in a circuit up and around the hills behind Redwood etc and back to the cars.
A Story
The Friday walkers all were sent a link to a map showing the intended walk. There was also quite a bit of explanatory text with the email. When walking an alarm on one the walker’s phone kept notifying him that we were off track, but we got to the top of the hill and back on track soon after. When he questioned the author of the walk who had been walking with an earlier group it was explained that the note sent with the link explained that part of the track we were meant to be walking was not the same as the link. Our walker replied that could he have the following note on the future emails:- “Read This”. The same could go for the parking instructions for last Wednesday’s walk.
Vaccination Certificates
These are no longer required for our walking group.
Photos
Here are some photos from last week and before. Walkers please try and take a photo of each group on walking days and email them to peter@jville.kiwi preferably small size (around 450kb).
Walk Schedules
You can look at the walk schedule for the rest of April here.