Claires cakes for the field parties

After waking up at 8am to see if I might be able to take some scientists out to the islands I retreated back to bed as it was my day off and it was blowing horizontal snow. I rowed 10km on the rowing machine in the gym and then after a leisurely brunch headed out for some ice climbing with a group. After ice climbing in shitty conditions – gusting 40 knots we wondered back to the bar and decorated it for christmas.

So it seems like everyone who has spent time down here is a scrooge and isn’t into christmas at all which kind of sucks. Us newbies have our advent calenders and Claire spent an afternoon making christmas cake last week.

However, I still haven’t got the christmas spirit going especially as we will be working on the actual day! But I might be lucky as I might be sent out to the field for a week over christmas in which case I will be in a little hut 200 miles from here on the actual day with the parcel my mother sent down.