While we’re all here hanging out
together for months on end in one building, we have to be creative in
ways to entertain ourselves. Alex, one of our science team here,
organised a darts competition between various stations throughout
Antarctica. Of course we can’t actually get to other bases, so we
use our dodgy phone lines and Internet connections instead. This is
followed up by emailing a couple photos through to the bases, post
match, to see just who we’ve been playing.
You can see the set up in this photo.
Alex is usually in charge of the phone or laptop, which we set up by
our darts board for the game.
So far we have had a lot of fun…. and
mixed results! I have to say I have never played darts in my life,
and I’m not the only one. But I did manage a couple of fluke shots
to win our game against Concordia the other day – form I know I
will not be able to replicate again should I play darts every day for
the rest of my life! But it was fun while it lasted! We have lost a
couple matches but our most important win was against Rothera
(another BAS base) on Friday night.
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Apparently July is usually pretty quiet
after the buzz of midwinter. But we’ve managed to keep ourselves
entertained – not only with the darts but a few other bits and
bobs. We celebrated Nathalie’s birthday with a party including a
monster cake made as a team effort by me, Steve and Celine. It was
pretty solid and ensured everybody had their lifetime’s dose of
food colourings!
Alex organised a quiz last weekend…
And last night we had a sushi evening
with everybody rolling their own and a few of us dressing up.
I have finished a post midwinter
project of knitting a jumper. Shame it’s actually too warm to wear
it here!! Inside, at least!
And on top of all of this the light is
coming back pretty quick. It’s a beautiful day
out there today…
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