Well Used Expressions

Recurring comments, phrases and noises played an important part in the expedition. Many of the quotations below could be heard echoing off the hills, plus some others which (for many different reasons!) cannot be written down ...

"The cat came back the very next day..."

"Ian, you're tiny!"

"Where's Joe?"

"Mmm ... Gore-Tex!"

"Anyone up for poker?"

"Anyone up for swimming?"

"Anyone up for golf?"

"Anyone up for it?"

"What's for lunch?" - "Ryvita!!"

"Where's Gilbert?"

"Give me back my cripple sticks!!"

"Anyone see where the others went?"

And from Richard ....


"Does anyone mind if I have another slice?"

"Is there any marmalade?"

"Is there any more marmalade?"

"If there's no marmalade is there any jam?"

"Mmmmmmmmm!!"

Some interesting entries in log book ....

"We decided not to trust the camp's digitally operated toilets and having found some suitable bushes we had breakfast."

"We walked through deforested areas full of stagnant water which looked like it could dissolve a rabbit whole."

"The chicken in the 'Chicken Supreme' was anything but. It tasted and looked like compacted sawdust!"

"After being treated to a delicious pot of organic ice cream and having pitched our tents, we walked down to the beach to play with Gilbert."

"We stopped off in the glorious setting of a church graveyard for the highly inventive lunch entitled 'Ryvita'."