YESTERDAY I spent the first day of my 47th year by climbing Gaika's Kop -- the highest point around Hogsback, I think. It's steep, and the last stretch is an on-all-fours scramble not to get blown right off by the incessant wind up there. By the time we got back I felt 48. The second pic is of the view of the Tyume Valley from halfway up, and there's an arrow that points to the village where I go to school these days: Gcato Senior Secondary School, in Binfield.