Thursday 28th June

It is very cold and icy.  This morning when I let the chooks out of their cosy little house I could hear squawks of dismay – NO!  Please shut the door!  You expect us to go out in that thick frost!  No thank you!

When I got into the lift last night there was already and occupant – a pleasant young bloke wearing hugely puffy jacket and a beanie.  The lifts in our building are very s-l-o-w so we had time to discuss the beauty of these mobile sleeping bag coats.  He said he has a shack at Great Lake, and that it was minus 9 at Liawenee last night.  His big black jacket comes in very handy up there!

Pete has also bought himself a big thick puffer vest, in a reptilian shade of green.  It is wonderfully warm, just short of Antarctic standard of loft.  I like to think of him keeping warm and cosy, in the cold cold shearing sheds in Ross.  The only thing is…he looks like a cartoon creature in this vest…a cross between a Transformer and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle!