all our small victories and joys, tears and home sick moments, squabbles and encouragements create our little ‘squash’ moments. Even in Antarctica we are all still squashed up against humanity
Category: Antarctica
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder…
…my only pair of jeans sustained a gymnastics related fatal injury AKA the jeans were not as flexible as me and ripped up the middle during a splits demonstration. This was approx. 3 months ago and has left me with King Gee pants, 2 pairs of green cords (WTF) and some lovely polar fleece trackies
When ‘normal’ is different
When the definition of normal is challenged and you have to figure out what is important
Finding the Emperor penguins
I desperately needed a weekend away, by Friday last week I was turning into a hater, there was not much empathy left in my heart and I needed a urgent recharge. Six weeks on station in a row was becoming a little bit like ground hog day and I was running out of love for every-one, hubby and family…
The cycle of life
The cycle of life is never demonstrated so dramatically as well you are in the midst of it.
The joys of camping at -20
Camping in Antarctica has some unique challenges but lots of benefits
As the long night draws near
The days have been slowly getting shorter until finally we have no light, instead we have Aurora Australis
internet withdrawals
Imagine what it is like to have no internet, how did people used to communicate
Muffin Day
Saturday and the chef has gone camping… domestic goddess moment has arrived!!!
Jen Wressell 