There comes a time in every winterer's season when it's your turn to do nightwatch. This week it's my turn. The role of night watch is basically to make sure there's always someone awake on base to be ready to respond to any emergency situation, but also to provide emergency radio cover for field parties, do rounds of the whole base to check doors are shut and anything that doesn't need to be on is switched off and of course there's the glamarous part - cleaning. Any time left over is free time which I made use of by experimenting with my new-found photograpy skills in the dark room, putting together the scalextrix track, going to the gym (which was suprisingly empty at 3am) and catching up with all those little jobs you never find time to do.
Part of the night watch round invloves going through a small door in one of the phone booths to check the water pumps are working properly. Behind the unusually small door lies a Heath Robinson affair of pipes and cables and a very old computer which beeps occasionally and displays the message 'HELP' in green writing on a very old monitor (apparently it's very important and is busy measuring ozone).
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