We have made it to Glastonbury field. So i,m blogging from the stone circle. 🙂
picture may or may not follow.
Or going down to Glastonbury field, does not have quite the same ring to it as strawberries fields, the the sentiment of nothing is real is the same. So first thing was to check-in with the site office for adsl line, and wireless frequencies. It all sort of when down from there 🙁 It turns out (as usually i have to say what was promised was on delivered, so rather than setting up a mini network for are site workers, i spent most of the day trying to get the bandwidth required, so we are trying several routes to get this done.
I did manager to setup some stuff, for basic printing and so on. The after lunch at the goose hall
is was on your bike (well firms bike or was that death trap, I,m shore brakes are ment to do some thing) to look at the various parts of the site ware equipment should be locate, well i would have taken some picture of this but all you would see is nice green grass with white lines painted on it. Situation normal then, back to the site office through the dust, good job i waring karkey to day 🙂 . The weather was bright and sunny (so i’m a bit burned to day). More conversations on what to do next, we have a plan, that will teach olly to say quietly confidant! then back to the Greenpeace field, before heading back to London.
Today is about adsl lines, a kit getting all together for shipping down to the site.
I know there trying to change the OED Mcjob Title See the Beeb, but are they now trying to claim working there is a calling. 🙂
Got up and headed for the Natural History Museum. Which had an exhibit on frogs! Lots and lots of froggies. All cute. Over 200 cute froggies. Only Joe made me go through that bit a bit too quickly. It was interesting, we headed in the back entrance, finally found where to go to sort out our tickets and, after much faffing and messing about, got tickets for three things: Frogs, Mythic Creatures (which for some reason included the dragon), and the planetarium show. We headed for the show first – Cosmic Collisions, narrated by Robert Redford – which was very good. I want to go to Mars for our next trip or the edge of the galaxy – that would be nifty.
After the show we headed to see frogs. Learned that even ‘true toads’ are frogs. Which is good. And saw loads of frogs. Little cute tree frogs, little cute poison frogs, little cute wax frogs sitting on a branch, big cute African green frogs, and American bullfrogs.
All sorts of frogs. We had to leave because our tickets for Mythic Creatures was only an hour after we went into frogs. We were a bit late.
Mythic Creatures was good, Joe got into it more than I did. I think the one at the Natural Science Museum in London was a bit better, a bit more science. But it was interesting. We had to leave that to get to the airport.
So back to the hotel to get our bags, sorted that out and headed for the tube. Got the train all sorted and got to the airport to be confronted with the queue from hell. Didn’t matter that we were already checked in, we had to go through the queue. Except we were in the wrong queue and the correct one was a bit shorter. Except they kept sticking people in front of us. But we eventually got sorted, only to discover the flight is leaving three hours late. Ho hum. Sitting in a bar now just waiting. How exciting.
Frog Blog
To swing on a string! Wheeeee! Guess what we did today? Yep, right off Kawarau Bridge the original site, only 43 metres and fun, fun, fun. I got told to stop bouncing though. And Joe got the photos and DVD to prove it.
And here’s the proof!
In Te Anau now after a very nice drive. The lake is pretty. Tonight we go for a pre-dive briefing and tomorrow we’re diving in Milford Sound. Then Christmas eve we’re kayaking!
Have a marvy Christmas everyone!
Joe saw at Fantail falls? Well, he was putting his bag in the car when a bloke in the next car got out and said ‘Joe?’ so I got a photo:
So we’ve tested the posting and the ability to upload photos so now we’ve tested the dive kit. We’re starting to get ready which is tough as Joe doesn’t know where we’re going. And it’s hard to say, ‘well we need to get . . . ‘ without spoiling the surprise! So there we are.
Anyway, all the shopping is done (hooray) . And today we went diving – in the rain. Well, we did a 20 minute dive to test our kit and drysuits. And mine leaked. So we didn’t do the second dive to try out the camera underwater. Joe will do that in the pool. Or maybe we can get back to Horsea one Sunday. And it won’t be raining. Maybe. Hopefully. And I can get my drysuit fixed/replaced.
Did I mention it was raining? Quite hard? Pouring it down? And I was wet cause my drysuit leaked? So it goes.
Joe did use his camera on the surface – just didn’t get the chance to play with it underwater. So photos:
This is Horsea and some divers. Not us. We were on shore in the rain. Did I mention it poured it down on and off all day?
And once we got home we had to have the after dive drinks:
