Thursday, 22nd July. Semliki Time: 09:01pm
In the great battle between sleep deprivation and obsessive compulsive disorder, a truce has finally been reached. I shall write a blog today but it shall be a short one. Right. So, what happened to Duncs today? Let's hit the bullet points.
1) Woke up in a terrible mood after bad dreams.
2) Ate breakfast.
3) Walked though forest wrestling with terrible mood.
4) Shook off mood and started to enjoy self.
5) Was lead up steep hill.
6) Almost fell to death.
7) Walked for 1km along the side of a ravine.
8) Walked back.
9) Resumed bad mood.
10) Walked up steeper hill in direct sunlight.
11) Sat down, started feeling more cheerful. Anticipated lunch.
12) Saw chimps several miles away.
13) Put away lunch and ran towards chimps.
14) Saw mother chimp holding tiny infant.
15) Mother chimp and tiny infant saw us.
16) Mother chimp and tiny infant promptly vanished.
17) Slid down ravine in bloody pursuit. Death or glory.
18) Walked through 15 spiderwebs (complete with spiders) and one thorn bush at high speed.
19) Lost chimps but in good mood.
20) Walked five miles back home.
The rest of the day I devoted, in roughly equal parts, to War ‘n’ Peace and Ginger Snaps. Most pleasant.
In the great battle between sleep deprivation and OCD your audience has clearly won. Your blog has replaced Bridget Jones' as my favourite diary and is, so far, shorter than War and Peace (I have been trying to get further than the second page since 1972).
ReplyDeleteThe nightmares were certainly not a good start to your vigorous day. I can only imagine they were about Sweeney Todd?
Someone has to make those chimps understand that their path to fame and fortune lies in standing still long enough to get a serious mention in The Blog. They are clearly not as intelligent as primatologists make them out to be, or at least not as well informed.
Love Mum