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Grier said:
Jessica, sometimes we put up a big tent but our camp kept moving leap-frogging to the next day's work.
That became a pain so we just roped a tarp between trees.
Lots of blankets and camp beds but eventually we just make a circle of camp beds around an open fire with the starry night sky as our ceiling.
That was amazing actually as we were so far from civillization there was no light or air pollution. The sky was crystal clear and when the very bright moon rose it was really spectacular.

As a cadet Surveyor I cooked, cleaned, dug latrines, ... and travelled back to Mount Newman for supplies.
One night I cooked the team a lovely batch of tripe, onions and white sauce. It all went in the fire!
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This sounds amazing 😍 I will never experience anything like this so to read about it and watch it on BTM is the next best thing! 😍 Apart from the tripe and onions that is 😆
 
Jessica 🤗 said:
This sounds amazing 😍 I will never experience anything like this so to read about it and watch it on BTM is the next best thing! 😍 Apart from the tripe and onions that is 😆
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I watched a great doco recently about great scenic drives in the UK. One amazing one was about Northen Scotland.
Incredibly scenic !
 
Grier said:
I watched a great doco recently about great scenic drives in the UK. One amazing one was about Northen Scotland.
Incredibly scenic !
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I prefer the Lakes District in Jessicas 'green and pleasant' England. I spent an enjoyable two weeks there in 1980 but on way back to London our Kombi van busted a rear end and we were stuck 100s of ks from our destination without transport, which put a dampner on the holiday.
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Jessica. said:
looker-on looker-on
As my nearest forum friend, are you experiencing this heatwave? Temps are predicted for 30 today! 🥵
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I imagine that 30° is heat in your neck of the woods. We've been lucky (how long will we be?) that the worse of the two predictions for central Europe has not materialised. We did have 40° as I wrote but not for long. This week we're going to have two warmer days if you like with around 30° but a real heat wave won't be very likely towards the end of summer. It's been way too dry with low water levels in many rivers and somehow strange with strong winds but no clouds as would be typical of cyclones.
We find it increasingly hard to cope with temps over 30° since they'd paralyse us. We're so glad, though, that it's been a bearable summer. It may not be long until I publicly announce that I look forward to winter rather than to summer as I used to do all my life. Winter doesn't prevent me from doing what I like but our extreme summers increasingly do.
 
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