Walk this way... (talk this way...)

Wednesday 06/12/06:
Out for another walk at 6am this morning. The conditions were far more pleasant than yesterday, when the wind was blowing so hard that I was almost losing my cap and it drizzled on the way back... Today it was still and fine, even a little sunny and it made it so much more enjoyable. Coming back past one of the ponds near my house, I even saw a mother duck swimming with her two fuzzy ducklings... awwwwwwww! The Pukekos were out strutting around too - love those guys, even if they are scatter-brained!

I walked the 4kms at a brisker pace this morning and my leg felt quite good. When I was rubbing Anti-flamm into it later I noticed that the ropey part thru the adductor that was still quite prominant yesterday had all but gone and the whole area felt so much looser. Its remained pretty good for most of the day, just getting a bit niggly again this evening, so I'm about to go and get the hot water bottle back onto it. On the whole its been pretty good the last two days - lets just hope it remains that way...

Onto other matters - Helleluah! iTunes has finally hit the NZ market! I was flabbergasted when I discovered - AFTER buying the latest Shuffle - that this was not available to NZ credit card holders! Yes, there are other alternatives, but it can be hard to know which ones are legal. Besides, you'd think that as they quite happily sell the entire Apple iPod range here and have for some time, they'd at least back it up with the ability to purchase downloads from their website. I knew it would only be a matter of time - and have plenty of music loaded onto mine from CDs, but it will be good to now be able to get some of the latest stuff onto it. I know our population is small compared to other countries, but HELLO, we still embrace technology - in fact I read somewhere that NZ has the largest number of cellphones per capita...

Phew, glad I got that off my chest... That sort of thing could really put a girl off her walking...