Mid Winter

Hooray - we have passed mid winter day and from now on the evenings and mornings should start getting lighter. Down here mid winter day is celebrated by a dip in the sea. By 'dip' it means run in, immerse yourself and run straight out again!

I am told the water temperature was 5 degrees! May be I'll do it next year!

Earlier in June Jade camedown to visit me for a stay that turned out to be a bit longer than planned due to the ash cloud from the Chilean volcano. I took Jade for a weekend away to Darwin House. It was cold and snowy and we had a lovely time watching a movie, playing games and walking in the snow.

We also went to Fitzroy to look at the memorials from the '82 conflict and officially christened my car 'Betsy'. I think that was possibly the muddiest she has got so far!

Last weekend Mark and I went to Ajax bay which was where they established the field hospital for the '82 conflict. It used to be a refridgeration plant. It definately had an atmosphere about it and I don't particularly want to go back there. 22 soldiers died there from their wounds.

This weekend I Mark and I went out to a collegues house out in camp - its a dilapidated place which they are slowly doing up with another couple. We helped to move a cast iron stove in and then went cross country to a creek to do some fishing, Hamish had three trail bikes - so I got to ride a bike off road - great fun! Hamish and James (not my James but the son of the husband of the other couple) rode as well and Mark drove Betsy.

In other news Mark Musty is due to leave next weekend - good for him but sad for me - but who knows he may come back- he made such a great impression with the school and the parents they paid out for a long weekend trip to West Falkland including the ferry crossing and a flight back to Stanley - I think they like him!