Snow

I ask you. April the 9th and there was snow, loads of it. Not that fun crispy slide about on and throw at your friends kind of snow either. No it was snow as an after thought following a day’s rain wet miserable drip down your back kind of snow. I can assure you that this kind of snow is not the kind of snow that fills one with enthusiasm at the prospect of going to sleep in it. Mind you it was very pretty, just the sort of pretty that is best left for Christmas cards or at least looking at through a window. I went to bed at about 9 on account of there being nothing else to do and, having just got back, I couldn’t be bothered to light a fire using damp or wet wood. I reasoned that I could stay warm in my sleeping bag and get a good night’s sleep and so get up nice and early in the morning. Because it was so cold I went and dug out my emergency reserve sleeping bag from where it was stashed. A second sleeping bag should keep me warm and so I was guaranteed a good night’s sleep. I awoke after a night when I had kept waking, it had been horrible but at least now I was ready to go to work, it was still dark. I might even have time to go to the gym before work; this would be good the idea of a swim and a sauna was just the thing. I looked at my watch to find out how early it was. Midnight! It was midnight and I was fully awake. Drat. I forced my self back to sleep, only to wake a little later feeling parched and groggy, I was too hot. So I had to kick off the second sleeping bag.

Actually I’m too tired and annoyed to go through the entire list of what went wrong last night. I woke up about every half hour, felt lethargic and miserable. Got soaked through, then frozen because the temperature dipped again after the cloud burst. It was grim, probably one of the worst nights that I have had. Utterly horrible. When I did wake up the first thing I thought was that I don’t want to do this any more. Then I realised that not only am I in the woods until June the 21st that then I’m going to the Jungle with Mike. I was not happy at all at this prospect. The jungle is going to be very hard work indeed.

Oh well.

In other news

Mike moves in on Saturday. His blog will be up and running from Thursday.