I watched Mountain on BBC1 last night, it was really good, but I was disappointed that it was the last in the series. Hopefully it will be repeated soon!
The stuff about how even Everest has footprints all over it (and needs littler to be collected from it) got me thinking about how few places there are that hundreds of people haven't already visited. It made me realise how lucky I am to be able to explore caves in Austria that no-one else has ever been in. Even the caves that we are re-exploring were visited by only a handful of people in the 1970's and 1980's, commonly less people than have been to the moon! And within these caves, many of the passage we walk/crawl down, and the pitches we descend have never been seen by anyone, and quite possibly never will be seen by anyone else.
It certainly is very exciting to be crawling/wriggling along a passage with no idea what will come next because no-one has ever been there before, will it stop? will it get larger? will there be pretty formations?
Caving is great :)
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Monday, 27 August 2007
Monday, 18 June 2007
Green dust and chocolate...
... but fortunately not together.
The woodwork in our house (skirting boards, door frames, banisters, etc) are a range of colours, mostly darkish brown downstairs and darkish green in the kitchen and upstairs. The green is a horrible colour and they are all really tatty (you can see bits of white, pink and purple), so I am on a mission to re-paint them white. This involves some sanding, currently I am working on the upstairs banisters, so sanding generates lots of nasty green dust which gets *everywhere*.
I've bought 676 chocolate bars this week, but they aren't all for me! They're for the caving expo in the summer. I bought them over three trips to the supermarket (so I could carry them home, and not buy all the shop had), I was kind of interested to see what the cashier would say each time. The first time she commented twice that I must really like chocolate, and when I said they weren't all for me, so looked quite unconvinced!
The second time, I got no comment at all on the chocolate, but the cashier seemed surprised that after putting through around 250 choc bars, the two "Healthy Balance" yoghurts were mine as well. I was very temped to say "well, you cant live on chocolate alone" but was too shy :)
The third time I got no comment at all which was rather dull. I think the cashier was still asleep.
Next I need to buy 250 packs of instant noodles...
The woodwork in our house (skirting boards, door frames, banisters, etc) are a range of colours, mostly darkish brown downstairs and darkish green in the kitchen and upstairs. The green is a horrible colour and they are all really tatty (you can see bits of white, pink and purple), so I am on a mission to re-paint them white. This involves some sanding, currently I am working on the upstairs banisters, so sanding generates lots of nasty green dust which gets *everywhere*.
I've bought 676 chocolate bars this week, but they aren't all for me! They're for the caving expo in the summer. I bought them over three trips to the supermarket (so I could carry them home, and not buy all the shop had), I was kind of interested to see what the cashier would say each time. The first time she commented twice that I must really like chocolate, and when I said they weren't all for me, so looked quite unconvinced!
The second time, I got no comment at all on the chocolate, but the cashier seemed surprised that after putting through around 250 choc bars, the two "Healthy Balance" yoghurts were mine as well. I was very temped to say "well, you cant live on chocolate alone" but was too shy :)
The third time I got no comment at all which was rather dull. I think the cashier was still asleep.
Next I need to buy 250 packs of instant noodles...
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