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Z or Dead!

What a better way to cure a hangover than to rock out the platform like there’s no neighbours for 350km! Ladies and Gentlemen, we are Z or Dead!

Dave on guitar/vocals, me on drums and Mark on lead guitar/vocals.

Dave on keyboard, me on drums, Mark on lead guitar/vocals and Alex on bass.

I don an Ozzy costume (thanks Mam) and totally murder ‘Wish you were here’ by Pink Floyd.

Ohhh and my drum kit consists of a cymbal on a chair, a snare drum and a samba drum propped up with a couple of videos. It sounds fantastic.

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Despite the darkness, the Sun still makes an impressive performance sometimes…

The platform at 2pm on the 23th of June.

Most were blurry (hard to take pictures at -40), but through luck and more luck, some were ok.

The entire scene outside glowed a surreal orange, it was still dark but the comforting blush at the horizon was enough to highlight suggestions of activity.

Later that evening we had the pool tournament, which saw Brian beating Jules in a fiercly competitive final. I went out early (1st round!) but not before handing out some pointers to Ant.

‘If you hit your opponent over the face with your hand like this, then you might be able to get a draw, otherwise, stick to cheffing’.

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Most people were assigned certain areas to construct a crazy golf hole. Mine was a wicked dog leg to the left with a dodgy hole (ooer). Props to Sune’s attempt that involved teeing off from a stool into a complicated system of gulleys ending up in cup and Dave’s ‘Hell(o) Kitty’, featuring a mouth not-quite-big-enough to get the ball through, unless you use a 155mm howitzer. Playing golf on a platform with uneven flat floors is not easy. I came second with Dave beating me by 1 shot (I blame his Kitty, took me 12 shots!)

Sune’s hole. Check out the mid-air action of ball and tee (pool chalk). Quite possibly the only golf course to incorporate a pool table into a hole.

Tom’s nightmare hole, which took an average 9 shots to complete (I did it in 4 … natch)

Hello Kitty! More like STUPID-HOLE-DAVE-I-DONT-CARE-THAT-YOU-DID-IT-IN-ONE-IT-STILL-SUCKS

In keeping with the crazy theme (we’re so crazy!!!!!!!!) a few of us got ambushed by Kirsty, held down with a system of ropes and forced to sit still as she carved out peculiar patterns into the back of our heads.

Jules Ltd is now the property of Kirsty Inc. If you cant tell what it is, there’s a life-size bald patch the same shape as Antarctica on Jules’ head, right next to the bit where Kirsty carved out a map of Antarctica.

Whereas I am officially the coolest bloke in this picture. Just a bit off the sides please.

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Just a brief post to wish all my fellow Antarctic colleagues a merry midwinter.

It’s a big day today. To start with I had breakfast in bed and spent a few frantic hours finishing off my winter present. In 20 minutes I’m going to run around outside naked, and then clean my office (clothed), have a fantastic dinner (probably clothed), and celebrate the half-way point in our long night with my friends.

It’s been an interesting 6 months, I hope the next two years are the same.

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