Tramping NZ 2019 Calendar by Harry Smith

These days I hardly ever do any actual tramping – I spend all my time trying to write bloody calendar reviews for Tony Gazley. Write a review of my new tramping calendar, he says. No, I say. Come on, write a review, says Tony. No, I say. Just a simple review, he says. It won’t … Read more

The 2018 Tramping calendar – by Harry Smith

Lake Chalice

One of my favourite pieces of poetry is a prose poem by the great 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire called Get Drunk. In English translation it goes like this: Get Drunk! It is essential to be drunk all the time. That’s all: there’s no other problem. If you do not want to feel the … Read more