Seventy seven point four

Just got back from two weeks running around in the heat and the dust of the woods and weighed in at 77.4kg. Bit of a loss after only ten days or so, though I suspect much of that is water weight as I sweated heaps. Was drinking loads of water (and electrolytes and eating salts with food) but I still feel mega dry - especially on the skin around my fingernails which is all retracted.

Going to take a bit of time to recover (it usually does) so I'm glad we came back in a bit early. Normally we go where it is cold and muddy rather than baking hot. The humidity didn't help either!

In the fields

Out in the hills, tenting and on rat packs. Good fun so far as we are helping out others that are being assessed rather than being assessed. And the weather has been really good too - warm days, cool nights and only a little spit of rain once... so far at least.

Had a go at playing car crash victim, drunk reveller and angry protester twice thus far. Feels nice to get a chance to do a spot of acting again. Help feed the others in the group and keep the momentum going.

Still a bit longer to go, but stressing a bit as I haven't heard anything about my leave apolication. I guess it should be approved but there's a chance I've done something wrong in the application process.

Fingers crossed I get to go home. Missing my wife terribly.