"Just take me to the top of the hill" - okay that means I don't have to have an early lunch with the Boss, I'll have it about 1pm when I get back - NO!
"Just see if you can pick up those 2 cows, they should move across the gully easily" - NO!
Did I have my proper hill boots on, and my hill stick (a length of manuka stick to help balance on the side of a hill) - NO!
Did I take Cruise as well as Maid - NO!
Did I have to walk all the way to the bottom of the hill to push the cows around, then climb back up to the bike - YES!
Did I get back to the house for lunch at 2.30pm - YES!
But on the positive side - I collected not 2 but 4 cows, and got them all the way back to the bottom paddock, they obligingly presented only their tails to Maid (she is not good on cattle when they turn and face her - she thinks that's a little scary, which is why I need Cruise).
And the Kowhai trees are flowering up the river, bright bundles of yellow flowers, full of trilling Bellbirds, which made everything well worth it.
Now just to see if the Boss got the 4 cows he set out for.
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