Sorry for the break. I’ve spent the last few days just getting shelter and food. Fortunately I’ve had basic survival training, and there’s plenty of wood here (!) so shelter and fire haven’t been a problem. Food hasn’t been that hard either – the woods are alive with animals – and once I found some open space on a hilltop, birds and rabbits are plentiful too. I’m not sure of the geography of this place, but the hills seem vaguely reminiscent of Norwich (I may just be imagining all this, but I wonder if what’s happened in the last sending was that I either went back in time to a prehistoric Norfolk, or to another parallel planet where this part of the country hasn’t been populated yet).

Anyway, I’ve got my shelter halfway up a hill, with a spring just below, and plentiful food (meat anyway, not seen much sign of vegetables). From the top of the hill I can see that the tree canopy stretches away into the distance, in every direction. This is what makes me think of pre-history on earth – it’s what I believe England would have looked like.

There’s no sign of human life anywhere. I’ve got a fire burning, but I’ve not seen any smoke anywhere else.

Now that I can take a bit of a break from just surviving, I’ve had time to take stock. Kit-wise I’m quite well off. Warm clothing, a sleeping bag, knife, matches (they won’t last for ever though), and my wrist pad – albeit that not every function now works. The watch and calendar are running, although the calendar is currently telling me it’s the 6^th July 2008. Sat nav system is not working (unfortunately) – probably because there are no satellites in this sky! The Internet link works, obviously, as I’m able to post to this blog (and this is something that I just cannot understand. All I can think is that the wormhole [or whatever the technical term for whatever it was that got me here] is still open, and my signals are able to pass through it). As I’ve got internet access, I can use search engines to look things up – albeit limited to the knowledge of the version of Earth in ’05 that I found myself in last sending. I’ve tried sending e-mails to the team, but they bounce back – because they weren’t around on that earth in ’05? The radio function doesn’t work – I don’t understand why the internet does, but that doesn’t. Aren’t they both digital signals?