Sunday 14 January 2007

Apples!

There were apples at breakfast this morning!!!!!!!!!! Fresh fruit and veg is quite sparse on base as we only get fresh food when the Dash 7 has been to collect people from Falklands or Punta, or a ship comes in, which isn't too often. I'll have to get used to the lack of fresh food as we have about 6months over our winter when no ships or planes will be able to visit. There's a lot of other food-related things to get used to such as 'Nido' - powdered milk (as it's obviously easier to transport than UHT milk and it's a little too cold for the cows), not checking date labels (as by the time things get here they're generally out of date anyway, I found some chocolate from 1992 in the boat kit the other day!), 'Man Food' which is the freeze-dried out of date lovelyness (Hmm) which you get to eat when you're out in the field and 'smokos'. We get 2 smokos a day (basically 'coffee breaks' but the chefs like to make various smoko treats ranging from bacon sandwiches to cakes and french pastries).

I've been trying various methods of exercise to counteract the smoko treats, including snowboarding, skiing, skinning (attaching 'skins' to your skis so you can go uphill), snow-shoeing, walking around the point and today I cycled around the runway on one of the base bikes, I managed to do 5 laps - roughly 10km. There's also a small indoor climing wall and a gym on base but the weather has been too nice for that so far.

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