So,

A couple of days ago, we left work at 5pm to head down to New Heaven Dive School. They are a good bunch of guys who do a lot of Eco work on the island.

Anyway, one of their students came up with an idea to make a underwater sculpture with real faces on it… so of course Jen and I were up for the challenge.

We arrived, and they mixed the Silicone base…

Jen went first, and the first step was to have her hair wrapped in clingfilm and to spread Vaseline all over her face to prevent it sticking…

Then with only a straw to breathe through… they poured on the goo…

After 20 minutes of laying still and sipping her breaths through the straw. The Silcone had set and the peeling took place…

Jenny’s cast was done, now it was my turn!

These casts will be used to make a cement sculpture to put down onto the reef.. I can’t wait to see the cement castings… The creator thinks it will be about a month before it is ready to deploy..

Both Jen and I had so much fun…. really made a change! But boy did that stuff cling on to your eyelids… and facial hair…. ouch!!

x

SD

Long time now type  …sorry everyone!!!!!

I’ve been busy sorting out ECO  …trying to put together a proposal for ‘ISV’ (International Student Volunteers) who are hoping to send groups of 10-15 students here on a regular basis.  They are more interested in land conservation, so going to make a few things up and perhaps get cement mixing  ..YAY!!!

Simon is still teaching a documentary course which is finally coming to an end soon.  I think he’s had enough and fancies a change.

Today, we’re both at home, Si did pop into the office for an hour and I went down to collect  my bike but now we’re at home just catching up with mails, blogs and unpacking all those messy little items that have little use and wonder why on earth do we have so much  clutter  LOL

The last couple of days have been pretty hectic but we’ve finally moved!!!!!!!! 

Kirsty and I managed to pack  everything and carry it down our numerous flights of stairs, so that when Simon arrived with the Taxi following him, we could load everything on and drive to our new house and unload. With the amount of cases, boxes we’ve accumulated over the last 5 years, we had to do, two trips ;-D   ..and if only you could see the state of Kirsty and I having after lugging cases, boxes  down the stairs and making multiple trips back up  ..we were exhausted, dripping with sweat and funnily enough, we both had very sore legs the next day 😀

With everything unloaded  …work was still being done on the house  ..nothing like leaving things to the last minute. …we unpacked the kitchen things but clothes etc were left until later.

The house as Simon said is nothing to look at but it has a nice feel to it and reminds me of a little hobbit house    …Si’s still not convinced but I think as soon as everything has been unpacked, we’ve got all our furniture in, it’ll be cool.  I can’t wait to play with my new gas cooker.

Photo’s to come..