Jae, Oscar and I went to a talk with Apples, the lovely guy from Exodus, during the recent half term week. He mentioned during his talk that he assumed that we three would all be sharing a tent. I said that I thought there were two person tents – optimistically imagining I might get a tent to myself. Well it seems that he had a word with Jae afterwards and told her that as Oscar is so thin – taller than I am, but as thin as a pencil – it might be best if we had a three person tent and we slept with Oscar in the middle to keep him warm. Cosy indeed!
I looked on the internet about the risks of being cold and found this gem about hypothermia on Kilimanjaro:
“Treatment for hypothermia involves thoroughly warming the patient quickly. Find shelter as soon as possible. Put the patient, without their clothes, into a sleeping-bag with hot water bottles (use your water bottles). Someone else should take their clothes off too and get into the sleeping bag with the patient. There is nothing like bodily warmth to hasten recovery”.
Did I really sign up for this? Am I going to end up naked in a sleeping bag with someone else? My grandson???!!! Some stranger? Is this for real?
… so where did Jae learn to say,”You can do anything you put your mind to…”?
For someone who doesn’t like to visit Australia during its winter, this is quite unreal! Hahaha. Sandwiched between you two sounds like a good place for Oscar to be, as long as you don’t snore!