Jul. 28th, 2022

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Mount Albert again, though I always think of this part as a different hill because of the road that runs over the saddle between the areas. Apparently it is in Melrose, a suburb I did not know I lived right next to - Wellington is always having these tiny hillside suburbs. I walk up the ridge from my house to that road, then turn right instead of left and end up at the brick and concrete mausoleum of Truby King, which is appealingly ramshackle, presumably due to earthquakes, its stair-steps crooked, some of its walls cracked, and associated structures fenced off entirely. From what little I know of Truby King - advocate for the scientific regularization of baby care, the Race marches forward on the feet of Little Children - this seems somewhat fitting. (Am I going to visit any memorials to people I really want memorialised? Not if I go to Mount Victoria next, the Wakefields are up there). Then on through the carpark and down this pine-covered slope towards my choice of steep, less steep, or I-will-certainly-fall-over routes back home.

View down short pine-needle slope, tall conifers either side, slanting light

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