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It’s incredible how many of us live lives that require very little manual labour of any kind… myself included. In the first days of our arrival, Alejo helped us get started which involved putting up the WeatherHaven tent. This essentially meant wrestling with ropes in the wind for a full day. By the end of the day my hands were pink and throbbing from the cold and close to blistering. I looked on as Alejo cranked ropes up with little more than his thumb and forefinger… correcting my fumbling attempts at tying things off.

Yesterday we put up the wind turbine in very wet and cold conditions and I am pleased to announce that I now seem to have developed somewhat more manly hands in the few days we have been here. Perhaps by the time the rest of the expedition arrives I will be able to shake hands with the gnarled Antarctic-hands I have always dreamt of having. Remembering of course that it is sacrilegious to shake hands with one’s gloves on in the Antarctic (just a small heads-up to all you soon-to-be Antarctic travelers…).

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Hello everyone out there watching, first of all thank you to all for keeping tabs on us. I also want to say I’m missing my family, Kirsty, Elliot and Benjamin. I love you and miss you all.

What can I say so far it’s just been amazing since I got here, I haven’t stopped smiling. We got here about 11pm Saturday night. We had to do a bit of work emptying the sleeping accommodation building of its contents before we could bed down, and were all properly exhausted when we finally fell asleep.

And it’s just been non-stop since then! We got our first light powered up today (check out the video!) and we are going to tackle the wind turbine tomorrow.

We have some amazing people out here, each bringing their own individual personality to the team. I couldn’t think of any other people I would want to spend my time out here with and I love the fact I have this opportunity to do this.

If I have learnt one think so far, is that it doesn’t matter what you want to do or how hard you think it might be, just go for it and see what happens! That’s what I did and look where I am now: writing this from Antarctica!

Keep watching and speak to you all soon.

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