Thursday 7 October 2004

I settled down this evening to watch Ray Mears doing one of his Bushcraft programmes. He was trekking across the Masai Mara with a native Masai warrior, who was going to show him some of the Masai survival skills. They settled down for the night, making a traditional masai camp, which effectively involved chopping down some really sharp thorn bushes and making them into a big hedge. They sat down by the fire and started to have some food. The Masai warrior reaches across the camp to poke the fire into life and what do I spot on his wrist?. A wristwatch. They seemed to live about 700 miles from the nearest road, in mud huts, with no electricity or any other obvious modcons, so why on Earth would they need a wristwatch?. Its not as if they need to worry about being late for meetings or anything is it?.

  • 8am : Sun rise. Get up
  • 8.05am : Check to make sure no one has been eaten by Lions in the night
  • 8.15am : Breakfast
  • 9am : Tend herd of cows and make lunch
  • 11am : Meeting with Lions to discuss their concerns re Project Wildebeast
  • 2pm : Pose for visiting film crew
  • 3pm : Networking with the Hyenas
  • 5pm : Go home for tea
  • 8pm : Eastenders
  • 10pm : Bed

1 comment:

1 i z said...

Cooo-eee! Shaun! Hello! Anyone out there?

Now you wouldn't want us to start comparing you to Cullen now would you?