Storm

First off a big thank you to everyone who has contacted me after the Observer article, sorry if I have not got back to you yet but life has become very hectic, much more so than I had ever imagined.

I had a cunning plan; I would use those little fiddly one portion UHT milk containers so I could have white tea. A splendid idea I thought when I put a couple of the containers in my fold away saucepan along, with all the other bits and pieces that get stored in there, three days or so ago. Now I don’t know when it burst but it was certainly long enough ago to cover everything in a thin layer of sour milk, what a lovely smell. I had to use some of that valuable drinking water on washing everything.

After a while I realised that the flashing lights in the distance were probably a speed camera, there being no roads, and was more likely lightening. There was a storm brewing, a big one and it was heading towards me, I decided that this was the perfect opportunity to test out the alleged waterproof properties of the Hammock. It was only when I had finished tying it to three trees and one bush that I remembered about the whole not sheltering under trees in a thunder storm; it then occurred to me that perhaps it was not the best idea in the world to strap myself to three trees in the middle of a storm. By now it was raining quite a lot and I thought it best to take the hammock back down seeing as there was no point in it getting wet if I was not going to be in it. Imagine my delight to be lying on the ground in the rain, some of me stayed dry. I think I got a couple of hours sleep. Fortunately I believe that body heat will dry the sleeping bag tonight.