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TALK WHILE YOU WALK

p until several years back, I didn’t regard myself as an ‘outdoorsy’ type of person. This is hilarious when I consider that I now feel out of sync if I don’t spend time outdoors, but also, I spent most of my childhood outside! I grew up less than five minutes’ walk from the sea in a small town in south Dublin. As is often the way for those of us who had ‘retro’ childhoods, where

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