I have been so busy rushing about doing stuff I almost forgot to write on this, the official last day of the year in the woods. Crikey! I’ve done it. It’s been a year; I have just spent a year living in the woods. What a very very odd thing to do.So tonight a couple of friends are coming over for a bite to eat, trout, a tomato sauce, new potato salad in a lemon and olive oil dressing and a bit of traditional barbecue fayre; black sausages, chicken, bread. It’s a shame that tonight is a work night as lots of people can’t make it out tonight; maybe they are just scared of the sloe gin.
I feel as though I should have something profound to say, I’m not sure I have enough depth of character to come up with something profound but maybe I should share a thought that I had with you. I have been mulling over whether to write about this for a while now but have always put it off as I think it will make me sound weird. Then again what does it matter, my family and friends, those close to me, already know that I am weird so why shouldn’t you.
I have mentioned before that when I was in America last year I went to the monument to Crazy Horse being carved out of the mountain just around the corner from Mount Rushmore. The blog that I wrote at the time could be read by clicking here. So basically some guy with a shovel, vision and a bunch of enthusiasm took on a mountain and won, seeing this really had an effect on me at the time and it got me to thinking that if one man can move a mountain then a society could change the world. It is my view that there is enough will power in the UK at the moment to do exactly that, it’s time to stop thinking that the state of the world is someone else’s responsibitly because the cold truth of the matter is that if we don’t do something no one else will. Lets replant the rainforest.
See I told you I was weird.
It will be possible to follow the progress of Mission Improbable (Trip to live in the jungle) at www.bethejam.com. I can't shake the idea that I should maybe have told Mike that the idea was to replant the whole forest not just a part of it, he'll be up for it I'm sure - he bought a small shovel the other day, just the thing for planting trees.
remember they laughed at the Nolan Sisters, the Wright Brothers, they laughed at the Wright Brothers.
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A sponsored live in the snow above a ski resort without a tent. I attempted this last year but inadvertantly got engaged and thus distracted but now I'm back, still engaged, and eager to give it another go. Currently I'm testing some kit and working out the logisics. There are various things to consider; how not to freeze to death, how to spend time with my fiance, how not to get carried away by an avalanche / yeti and how to not let this interfere with my job.
"a bloody idiot" Michael Parkinson
"I did this for one night, and I'm shot to pieces." Ed Ceaser, The Independent
"more Epicurean than eco-warrior" Jemima Lewis, The Guardian
"a New Puritan poster boy" Lucy Siegle, The Observer
"If he sticks it out for a year, it will be difficult to return to the noise of the city." Professor John Collings - Before Ditch Monkey I
"a bum" Bill Heine Radio Oxford
"I did this for one night, and I'm shot to pieces." Ed Ceaser, The Independent
"more Epicurean than eco-warrior" Jemima Lewis, The Guardian
"a New Puritan poster boy" Lucy Siegle, The Observer
"If he sticks it out for a year, it will be difficult to return to the noise of the city." Professor John Collings - Before Ditch Monkey I
"a bum" Bill Heine Radio Oxford
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4 comments:
congratulations and good luck for the next adventure.
Congratulations mate. You definitely have the vision and determination, no doubt about it. Have a good summer!
Well done x
Hello, Salam Alaikum.
History books! Hopefully for acts of extream stupidity in the face of sensible alternatives.
Have I gone beyond what I had expected to do when I started? Probably, but then I didn't really put that much though into it, I decided to do it on the first of May 2205 and then moved in to the woods on the first of June. It was all a bit rushed and I didn't have any particular objective. i'm going to think about this some more and work it into whatever conclusion get's written.
This brings me to what happens to this blog. Well I'm going to finish it off some time soon, go over what has happened and what it has meant to me. After that the blogging at www.bethejam.com but will carry on but focused on the Ecuador trip.
I have been in discussions about writing a book about the whole experience so I'm going to spend a bit of time working on that. The blog and the long hand notes written by torch light on long cold winter nights will form the basis of what gets written. I don't know if it will get published or not, if it does then it could help fund the trip to Ecuador. Fingers crossed. The summer then will be spent living by the river, eating crayfish and working on me masterpiece in the library. Whilst it sounds idylic I'm sure something will go wrong.
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