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May 2012

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It’s ridiculously easy getting lost in the New Zealand bush and equally difficult to be found It’s school camp season and this time I got to play being lost in the bush while a pack of 11 year olds searched for me. The policewoman in charge told me it was all about teaching the kids […]

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