So this month it finally happened. Winter is upon us. Even though this was something I have been preparing for mentally since August last year, it was still a very strange sensation to see the JCR appear on the horizon, dock and depart from the wharf and then suddenly realize this is it! We are cut off from the world. It was also as if nature caught onto our mood as well, with a sudden snow flurry and a deep dark foreboding sky – that really helped!
But to experience an Antarctic winter is what we signed up for – this is why we’re here, all 22 of us on the wharf contemplating just exactly what it is we've just committed ourselves to. Mustn’t grumble though, there's no way off now!
In the majority or A-list and ALL B-list movies, this is when the deep buried alien space ship should suddenly appear and flood the point with green slimy creatures, and no matter how hard we scream no one can help! I did look about for it this week but didn’t see it, so it’s probably waiting until the 24hr darkness, more dramatic that way.
But maybe that is not our biggest worry… maybe a bigger worry that it only took until the first weekend for us to all look like this!!! Help is a long way away…
But what would happen if the aliens did turn up that night though – what would they think? How would they explain that one back home at the space port... "Those humans really are an odd lot, eh Zorg? Yeah, you're right Bill. Glad we're home Zorg, that was all a bit too weird for me"
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