On Sunday afternoon the JCR arrived and we went straight into relief starting with loading a years supply of food into the food store. We stopped at 7:30pm to get ready for a BBQ. Tommy and Matt did an excellent job of setting up and BBQing for 85 people as the full ships company ate ashore with us. Monday morning it was straight into the job of finishing the food store and opening up the boxes in the boatshed so we could put the packing materials back aboard the ship for recycling in the UK.

We are now up to 16 people on station and summer is in full swing. We have Kevin who I worked with at Rothera here looking at plants for a short period. Also our new BAS staff of James (new BC), John (new Dr.) and Erny (new Mech). We were busy in the boatshed today cleaning up from relief and booking the new stock in however, as much of our supplies did not make it aboard the ship we don’t have the maintenance to do that we were hoping to have done in the next two weeks. So I guess I will go on holiday 🙂