The sun came out this afternoon, so after two days of physical inactivity it was time for a serious walk.  I took the "high road" to the Tawa shopping centre: Fyvie Ave, Davidson Cres, Turkington St, Franklin Rd, then down Hampton Hill Rd and the pedestrian shortcut to Lincoln Ave and from there to the shops.  I came back via the Grasslees Reserve, where I found the perfect place to sit and ponder the world for a few minutes, then along the main road and up that last little vicious steep bit to home. At the Grasslees reserve there's a memorial to Elsdon Best who once lived there.  There are two plaques, which say: NEARBY AT GRASSLEES FARM ELSDON BEST MAORI ETHNOLOGIST WAS BORN ON 30 JUNE 1856 HIS ASHES LIE HERE and 1856-1931 Haere ra te Pehi Haere ki te Hono i Wairua