Dinosaur Thing

Antarctica fitness program week 2 er!!

Ok so 3 days in the gym resulted in a few pounds off the middle and 3 days of man flu. Great !! So restarting the fitness campaign again today but perhaps just an hour or so on the Wii fit. What has been going brilliantly has been the preparation for the expedition using our Antarctic Village virtual world. We've done 6 virtual lectures/get togethers now, averaging 30 people in each. Something that would have only been posssible before with us all flying into a central event and that would have been counter to the aims of the project of averting climate change. What is striking me though is that the virtual world is really working as an engagement tool for young and old. Maybe the old guys don't rehearse enough with the tools but they get there. The youngsters though want access on the move when they want without worrying about having the right kit. Maybe mobile virtual worlds should be the focus for next year.

Not in Front of the Children

We're just back from a lovely week in Elveden Forest with the kids. As seems to be the way we're noticing that the kids language skills seem to dramatically improve when we spend large amounts of time with them. So we were delighted to hear our 20 month daughter say "Aaaap.....pullll" when she wanted an apple. After she repeated it a few times I mentioned to my wife that it sounded very like the little kid in "Meet the Fockers" saying "Assssssss....whole" and as you'd expect the echo came right back at me "Asssssss...whole". She's back to "Aaaaap....pulll" thank god !!!

Antarctica

...so anyway that "trip of a lifetime"comment I teased everyone with a few weeks back. I'm very fortunate to be heading off to Antarctica as part of Robert Swan's expedition at the end of March. I officially started the "get fit for antarctica campaign today" and will hopefully be blogging and flickring my socks off whilst I'm there.