Be The Jam

Leg is out of the splint now, knee a bit crunchy, might be a while before running and like is on the menu.

bored bored bored.

Read a lot of books and watched a lot of DVDs.

Weather is quite hot for the time of year, it should be around minus twenty, today it is plus three.

I have learnt some things

It is best not to write "Narnia, do not feed the lion" on the kitchen door in permanent marker pen.

Scandinavian girls can be very pretty

Oven cleaner gets permanant marker off doors

Scandinavians drink a lot

Oven cleaner also removes paint from doors

Grappa is wrong, very wrong.

Mulling and planning, planning and mulling. That is what I have been doing of late as there aint a lot else to do in the mountains when you can not get out and about much. The result of the planning and mulling is that the jungle plan has now come full circle, to the idea I first had before even going to go and live in the woods for a year. Plans had to change as what I had planned was just far too expensive. It never really occured to me that going and living off fish and berries would be an expensive past time but it turns out that it is.

The new plan is to live in the jungle in South East Asia for  a year. This is not ideal as they have leaches there I believe, there are none in the Amazon. This change of venue means that the whole venture should cost three to four thousand pounds less.

bored of planning, want to get out there and do things.

That was not supposed to happen.

My approach to skiing was that the thing that results in people getting injured is the fear of being injured; if you approach things with a positive attitude things tend to come out better you see. If you think you are going to get hurt then you are more likely to hesitate and so bring about the very injuries that you are trying to avoid. It is a good theory and one that I stand by, however the splint on my leg suggests that perhaps the theory needs some modification, such as confidence does not make up for a lack of technical skill.

Only having one working leg might well cause some disruption to the scampering up mountains to live in the snow plan.

So here I am, I have for once a quiet moment and a computer to myself that is free of charge to use. However, this does not necessarily mean that I can at this time express the things that I am currently thinking with any degree of lucidity. I am feeling rather tired. At 8:40 this morning four of us were the very first people on the slopes, cutting up a 3 kilometer run across virgin snow, screaming through the chill winter air at max speed and really having quite a good time of it. I got back home at about 4pm having only briefly stopped skiing and only having one limb still intact, the other three having taken the brunt of many a high speed collision with the ground. Right now I am very tired; too much fresh air and exercise followed by lots of good food and a couple of beers will do that to a chap. The reason for mentioning this is to expalin that whilst I have the opportunity to explain what is going on I might not be able to do so on account of my brain not working properly anymore. Before I descend further into the realm of jibba jabba I shall attempt to explain myself. Yadda yadda.

There is a problem with the going to the jungle plan and this is that I can't afford to do it. This isn't a fatal problem to the plan but it is certainly a bit of an inconvienience and is definately delaying matters. There are a couple of routes that I am investigating that might well provide funding but I am having to address the possibility that the money might not arrive.

Man I need to sleep.

OK abridged version.

Currently thinking of changing the fundraising approach to one of spending a year living out in every continent and building my way up to South America / Jungle via Italian Alps, Thailand, Africa, North America and Australia. Seems like a big adventure, but also something that would not necessarily come with a pension plan.

Big plans lack of brain power or even time to think.

Ho hum.

Does anyone have any bright ideas on how to raise the £5 - 10,000 that going to live in the jungle for a year will cost?