The sun is out again!!!!
Yayyyyyyyyyy! So happy that basically I get three summers back to back. I definitely picked the right time of year to come here!!!
So today I had the day free as I was going on to my first night shift. HMS Edinburgh (the one that my friend from home who I bumped into in Stanley is on) is currently docked about 6 miles away from MPA. Our new met girl had been sat next a couple of people from the ship at the Burn's night dinner, and then we were chatting to the at the bar later. They had said that if we liked they would show us around the ship.
I had called up the night before, and our new met girl had rang this morning to confirm. Both Jake and James wanted to come too, as did our two visiting Met Office engineers.
We set off after lunch and spent about an hour on board. James was on the day shift, but the admin guy very kindly stood in for him for a couple of hours so that he could come with us. I saw my friend from home, but sadly he was too busy to join us for a cup of tea, so it was a brief hello.
It was quite interesting, a bit different to aeroplanes and helicopters at least! Nice to have a change of scene and get off base. It was, as I expected, very cramped on board. I don't know how people manage to do 6 months on board!!! Crazy...!
We were allowed to take pictures, but I'm a bit nervous of posting them here really.... eeek! Here's just one sneaky peak....
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